Arthur Hugh Clough : a poet's life / / Anthony Kenny

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461324703321
• Autore: Kenny Anthony
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 1-283-20623-4; 9786613206237; 1-4411-5143-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 821.8
• Soggetti: Poets, English - 19th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Childhood and Boyhood; 2 Clough at Balliol; 3 Fellow of Oriel; 4 Farewell to Oxford; 5 Revolutions and Hexameters; 6 1849: Annus Mirabilis; 7 The London Years; 8 Dipsychus; 9 Transatlantic Engagement; 10 Marriage and Fellow Service; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) is one of the great undiscovered geniuses of Victorian literature. His poetry expresses the religious doubt of the age as well as exposing its sexual hypocrisy. His life is packed full of relationships and encounters with some of the great names of the 19th century; Florence Nightingale, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Cardinal Newman, Tennyson, the Arnolds and so on. Clough's early death at the age of 42, worn down, it is said, by working as a factotum for Nightingale, was widely seen as a personal tragedy of unfulfilled promise. Now Kenny, the distinguishe