Research Catalog

Title

Clough--selected poems / edited by Joseph Phelan.

Author

Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861.

Publication

London ; New York : Longman, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Phelan, Joseph, 1963-

Description

xii, 289 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

• This volume presents a selection of Arthur Hugh Clough's poetry (1819-1861). Each poem is accompanied by detailed annotation which provides the modern reader with the intellectual, cultural, and historical information necessary for a full appreciation of the poet's work. A substantial critical introduction analyses the major themes and stylistic features of Clough's poetry, and attempts to place his work in the context of nineteenth-century poetry as a whole.
• The poems discussed span Clough's entire career, with new texts provided for all posthumously published works. The main focus of the book is on two of his most important poems, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus and The Spirit. Each is discussed at length in the critical introduction and prefaced by a substantial headnote elucidating its historical background and literary antecedents.
• Dipsychus and The Spirit is presented here in the first-ever annotated version of the only complete draft of the poem, resulting in a uniquely reliable and accessible text for one of the crucial works of mid-nineteenth-century literature.
• Clough: Selected Poems will be essential reading for all students of nineteenth-century English literature. Providing a wealth of information about the poet and the context of his work, it also represents a substantial contribution to scholarship on the subject in its own right.

Series Statement

Longman annotated texts

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• Longman annotated texts.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

'The human spirits saw I on a day' -- 'As, at a railway junction, men' -- Qui laborat, orat -- When Israel came out of Egypt -- 'Why should I say I see the things I see not' -- 'Duty - that's to say complying' -- 'I have seen higher holier things than these' -- Qua cursum ventus -- Natura naturans -- 'Is it true, ye gods, who treat us' -- Adam and Eve -- Amours de Voyage -- Dipsychus and The Spirit -- Epi-Strauss-ium -- The Song of Lamech -- Jacob's Wives -- Jacob -- Bethesda: A Sequel -- Resignation - to Faustus -- Uranus -- Sa Majeste Tres Chretienne -- Easter Day. Naples, 1849 -- Easter Day II -- The Latest Decalogue -- The Struggle -- 'In controversial foul impureness' -- Peschiera -- Alteram Partem -- 'It fortifies my soul to know' -- In Stratis Viarum -- [actual symbol not reproducible] -- 'To spend uncounted years of pain' -- Seven Sonnets -- Last Words. Napoleon and Wellington.

ISBN

• 0582051134 (cased)
• 0582051126 (paper)

LCCN

94020379

OCLC

• 30511678
• ocm30511678

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries