Arthur Hugh Clough

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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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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.

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• 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