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Shortly before he left Oxford, in the stress of the Irish potato famine, Clough wrote an ethical pamphlet addressed to the undergraduates, with the title, A Consideration of Objections against the Retrenchment Association at Oxford ( 1847 ).

His Homeric pastoral The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, afterwards renamed Tober-na-Vuolich ( 1848 ), and written in hexameter is full of socialism, reading-party humours and Scottish scenery.

Ambarvalia ( 1849 ), published jointly with his friend Thomas Burbidge, contains shorter poems of various dates from circa 1840 onwards.

Amours de Voyage, a novel in verse, was written at Rome in 1849 ; Dipsychus, a rather amorphous satire, at Venice in 1850 ; and the idylls which make up Mari Magno, or Tales on Board, in 1861.

A few lyric and elegiac pieces, later in date than the Ambarvalia, complete Clough's poetic output.

His only considerable enterprise in prose was a revision of a 17th century translation of Plutarch ( called the " Dryden Translation ," but actually the product of translators other than Dryden ) which occupied him from 1852, and was published as Plutarch's Lives ( 1859 ).