Overview

This volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861), one of the most distinctive writers of the Victorian period. The first selection to place Clough's poetry alongside his prose, it allows readers to explore how his poems are connected to his literary criticism and his lectures on literary history, to his letters and diaries, and to his writing on politics and economics.A political radical and religious sceptic, Clough emerges as a strikingly modern Victorian: he writes honestly and directly about sexuality, and his work is informed by a cosmopolitan perspective that views Victorian society in the context of other national, political, and cultural traditions. Clough's innovative poems incorporate a diverse range of voices and styles, borrowing and reimagining aspects of the epic, the drama, and the novel. And they reveal a side of Victorian culture-irreverent, iconoclastic, and self-aware-that is often ignored today. Detailed notes identify and explain Clough's comments on major political events such as the European revolutions of 1848, and his allusions to a wide array of different writers and texts.The edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Clough, and a Chronology, which enhance the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works.

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Author:   Greg Tate (University of St Andrews)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.464kg
ISBN:  

9780198943518

ISBN 10:   0198943512
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

FROM AMBARVALIA 'The human spirits saw I on a day' 'When panting sighs the bosom fill' Qui Laborat, Orat When Israel Came out of Egypt 'Duty - that is to say complying' Natura Naturans 'Is it true, ye Gods, who treat us' 'FROM PALSYING SELF-MISTRUST, FROM FEAR' LETTER TO JOHN PHILIP GELL (24 NOVEMBER 1844) EPI-STRAUSS-ION FROM A CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE RETRENCHMENT ASSOCIATIONS DIARY (15 JULY 1848) LETTER TO THOMAS ARNOLD (16 JULY 1848) THE BOTHIE OF TOPER-NA-FUOSICH: A LONG-VACTION PASTORAL HOMO SUM, NIHIL HUMANI LETTER TO ANNE CLOUGH (30 APRIL 1849) LETTER TO FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE (21 JUNE 1849) AMOURS DE VOYAGE RESIGNATION - TO FAUSTUS EASTER DAY EASTER DAY II 'WHENCE ARE YE, VAGUE DESIRES' THE STRUGGLE 'IN CONTROVERSIAL FOUL IMPURENESS' 'TO HIS WORK THE MAN MUST GO' THE LATEST DECALOGUE DIPSYCHUS AND THE SPIRIT PESCHIERA ALTERAM PARTEM WORDSWORTH 'IF TO WRITE, REWRITE, AND WRITE AGAIN' 'I SAID SO, BUT IT IS NOT TRUE' 'IF THAT WE THUS ARE GUILTY DOTH APPEAR' THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE LAST WORDS: NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTON LETTER TO BLANCHE SMITH (19 FEBRUARY 1853) LETTERS OF PAREPIDEMUS, NUMBER ONE RECENT ENGLISH POETRY FROM MARI MAGNO The Clergyman's Second Tale

Reviews

Tate's edition deserves praise for its generous selection of the poems [...] as well as the judicious selection of letters and prose that accompanies it. The notes lucidly set Clough's life and work in context. * Fergus McGhee, London Review of Books *

Author Information

Gregory Tate is a Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of St Andrews. He has published widely on nineteenth-century poetry, fiction, periodicals, and science, and he is the author of two books: The Poet's Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry (2012) and Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Physical Sciences: Poetical Matter (2020).

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