CLARKE, Helen Archibald "Ancient Myths in Modern Poets" [Baker & Taylor, 1910]

CLARKE, Helen Archibald. Ancient Myths in Modern Poets.

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1910. First edition. 8.5" x 5.75", 360pp with 12 black and white plates reproducing works of art referenced in the text. Original olive-green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine and upper cover, with pictorial design to the front board. Top edge gilt. Binding shows light edge wear with a small nick to the cloth at the fore-edge of the front cover and minor rubbing at spine ends; gilt remains bright. Textblock clean. Front hinge cracked. Very Good-.

Clarke’s study examines the survival and transformation of classical myth in nineteenth-century English poetry, with extended treatments of Prometheus, Diana and Endymion, and solar myths as reimagined by poets including Shelley and Keats. The book reflects an early twentieth-century scholarly approach that blends classical philology, literary criticism, and comparative mythology. It stands as a representative example of pre-First World War academic interest in myth as a living literary structure rather than a purely antiquarian subject.