
Arthur Hugh Clough
The Poetry of a Questioning Spirit
Renzo D'Agnillo(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 6. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
301 pages
978-3-0343-2418-2 (ISBN)
Description
This study traces the poetic development of Arthur Hugh Clough through a methodological approach based on close readings of his most important works with separate chapters devoted to the three great poems of his maturity: The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich, Amours de Voyage and Dipsychus. Attention is also given to the socio-cultural context and the religious and political debates which contributed in shaping Clough's artistic and ideological vision, particularly through the influential figures of Thomas Arnold, John Henry Newman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. That Clough remains to this day one of the most neglected nineteenth-century writers is all the more remarkable given the importance of his intellectual contribution to his times and his radical questioning of religious faith, traditional values and poetic norms.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Lausanne
Switzerland
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-2418-2 (9783034324182)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0343-2419-9
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Renzo D'Agnillo is Associate Professor of English Literature at G. d'Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He is the author of Bruce Chatwin: Settlers, Nomads and Exiles (2000), The Poetry of Matthew Arnold (2005) and editor of D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow: Re-readings of a Radical Text (2010). He has published articles and essays on various nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors, including Charles Dickens, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, G.M. Hopkins, Elizabeth Gaskell, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.
Content
Preface - Rugby Verses - Oxford Verses - A Questioning Spirit - Political and Satirical Verses - The Bothie of Tober-na-Fuoisch - Amours de Voyage - Dipsychus - Conclusion.