Asked what problems most perplexed 'young men at present' Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) replied 'a growing sense of discrepancy'. His wry and wise poetry explores the tensions of a time of radical changes in the religious, political and literary landscape. He has a sharp eye for absurdity. 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. His narrative poem "he Bothie of Tober-Na-Vuolich" and the epistolary "Amours de Voyage" have the momentum and social precision of novels, capturing a precise image of the Victorian world of the 1840s. This volume includes a generous selection of the full range of Clough's poetry, with a detailed introduction and annotations by Shirley Chew.
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If you are thinking of setting an edition of Clough's poetry for your Victorian poetry class, then you will find that this one is the only volume that is readily available. This Routledge/Fyfield edition, however, needs to be used with caution. Shirley Chew has decided--for reasons best known to herself--to omit section V of The Bothie. Moreover, she has cut out quite a number of other lines. The notes are by no means as thorough as they should be.
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