Word: clough
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. Corrected from the Greek and revised by A. H. Clough. Boston: Little, Brown...
...have received a reprint in one volume of the edition of the "Lives," edited by the poet Clough, and published in five volumes in 1859. The translation is an old one of the seventeenth century, but it has been considered to be a better translation than could now be made; in reviving it, however, Clough succeeded in correcting many inaccuracies and mistranslations without marring its inimitable style. At the time of its first appearance the revision was highly praised, and the work may be said to have altogether superseded the inferior translation of the one then in common use, Langhorne...
...perhaps a fact worth mentioning that, although most of the revision was done in England, the idea was conceived and the work begun by Clough here in Cambridge during his brief residence in America...