Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems

Arthur Hugh Clough

Psychology Press, 2003 - Poetry - 240 pages

Clough was a writer of wide interests and liberal sympathies, vividly idiomatic and sensuous, delighting in the detail and variety of everyday life. His technical dexterity is a delight: the poems encompass satire and lyric, dialogue, plot and contemporary reference. This volume includes a generous selection of the full range of Clough's poetry, with a detailed introduction and annotations by Shirley Chew.

Contents

• Chronological Table: 7
• A Note on the Text: 35
• The Latest Decalogue: 51
• Where lies the land to which the ship would go?: 64
• AMOURS DE VOYAGE: 127
• from DIPSYCHUS: 181
• Notes: 211
• Select Bibliography: 239

About the author

Arthur Hugh Clough was born on the first day of 1819 to James and Ann Clough in Liverpool, England. A poet who studied at Rugby and Oxford, Clough had radical political and religious beliefs. After going to France to support the revolution of 1848, Clough traveled to the United States hoping to obtain a position at Harvard. When that did not work out, Clough returned home and married Blanch Smith. Soon after, Clough spent much of his time helping his wife's cousin, Florence Nightingale, lobby for reform in hospitals and in the nursing profession. Throughout the 1850s, Clough worked on a translation of Plutarch's Lives and a large poem, Mari Magno. Clough died in Florence, Italy, on November 13, 1861, at the age of 42.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems; Fyfield books
• Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
• Editor: Shirley Chew
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0415969379, 9780415969376
• Length: 240 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / General