Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough ( born January 1, 1819 in Liverpool, † November 13, 1861 in Florence) was a British poet.

Life

Clough was born as the son of Welsh cotton merchant James Butler Clough and Anne Perfect. 1822 the family emigrated to Charleston (South Carolina) from 1828, he returned with his older brother Charles returned to England and went to school in Chester, from 1829, the Rugby School in Rugby ( Warwickshire ). After visiting the Balliol College, he studied at the University of Oxford, where he then worked as a lecturer. Initially influenced by John Henry Newman, he later became a skeptic. In 1848 he gave up his chair on because of scruples. After traveling through Europe, he was in 1849 entrusted with the management of the University of London. In 1851 he made ​​a trip through the USA and in 1854 an official of the Ministry of Culture. In the same year he married Blanche Smith, a cousin of Florence Nightingale. When testing Commissioner for military schools, he often visited the European continent.

Clough was much appreciated for his upright and witty personality of colleagues such as Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. A close friendship with him Matthew Arnold, who posthumously Thyrsis his poetry dedicated to him.

Works

  • The Bothie of Toper -Na- Fuosich. Seal, Versidylle 1848 ( German: The cabin of Toper -na- Fuosich ), later under the title: The Bothie of Toper -Na- Vuolich
  • Amours de Voyage, narrative poem, 1849 ( German: travel love affair )
  • Dipsychus, Drama, 1850
  • Mari Magno, short stories, 1862
  • Poems and Prose Remains, 1869 f
  • Poems 1968 edited by AL Norrington, 1974 edited by FL Mulhauser
  • Selected Prose Works, edited by BB Trawick, 1964
  • Correspondence, edited by FL Muhauser, 1957
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