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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. This edition is the first to place Clough's poetry alongside his critical writings, lectures, letters, and diaries.
List 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
About the author
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).
Summary
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. This edition is the first to place Clough's poetry alongside his critical writings, lectures, letters, and diaries.
