The author has written the life of Arthur Hugh Clough with special emphasis on his intellectual development and the growth of his powers as a poet. There are interesting references to his friendships with Emerson, Lowell, and others and to his sojourn in America. Contents: Childhood; At Rugby; As undergraduate; As fellow of Oriel; The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich; Amours de voyage; Dipsychus; Last years; Conclusion; Index.
“The investigation has not, perhaps, been as thorough as it is clearheaded.” F. W. S.
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Reviewed by J. W. Krutch
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“Its one drawback is a peculiar style which changes back and forth between the past tense and the historical present.” E. F. E.
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“There is much in this study which the student of mid-Victorian poetry and intellectual life will find useful and suggestive. But Mr Osborne’s work has little charm of style, and fails to render Clough attractive to the reader.”
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