Graham Hough: The Last Romantics

Written by Graham Hough, the non-fiction book is a study of writers that Hough calls ‘the last romantics’. They include well-known names such as John Ruskins, William Butler Yeats, Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, William Morris, and more. The author taught English in the University of Malaya in the 1900s, and was a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaya and Thailand during World War II. ‘The Last Romantics’ was purportedly written in Changi Prison.

This is a first edition from the private collection of Robert Yeo. The publication bears Hough’s signature on the first page.