'The true haunts of the poetic powers,' Arthur Hugh Clough wrote to his friend Matthew Arnold, 'are no more upon Pindus or Parnassus but in the blank and desolate streets, and upon the solitary bridges of the midnight city, where Guilt is, and wild Temptation, and the dire compulsion of what has once been done - There walks the discrowned Apollo, with unstrung lyre.' Mari Magno, written in the last years of Clough's life, is a modern Canterbury Tales, the travellers on a trans-Atlantic crossing exchanging stories about love and marriage. The unfinished dramatic poem Dipsychus, a Faustian dialogue, was started in Venice when Clough was still a young man, and revisited and revised throughout his life. He described it as 'the conflict between the tender conscience and the world'. These two unfinished master-works and a selection of Clough's shorter poems will feed the growing interest in this most lovable and no longer neglected Victorian.
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Mari Magno, written in the last years of Clough's life, is a modern Canterbury Tales, the travellers on a trans-Atlantic crossing exchanging stories about love and marriage.

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ISBN
9781847772558
Publisert
2014-07-25
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Carcanet Press Ltd
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216 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
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Product language
Engelsk
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Heftet
Antall sider
144

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Biographical note

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH was born in 1819 in Liverpool, the son of a cotton merchant. His family emigrated to South Carolina, where he spent his childhood, before he returned to England to attend Rugby school in 1829. It was while he was at Rugby that Clough made friends with Matthew Arnold, the son of the headmaster. After taking his degree at Oxford he became a fellow and tutor at Oriel College, but in 1848 his religious doubts led him to resign. He was appointed Professor of English at University College, London. In 1852 he resigned from University College and became a tutor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he mixed with the circle of New England intellectuals that included Ralph Waldo Emerson and Charles Eliot Norton. He returned to England in 1853 to take up a post as Examiner in the Education Office. Clough died in Florence in 1861.