Arthur Hugh Clough is the great undiscovered genius of Victorian literature. The golden hope of his generation at Rugby and Oxford, he battled against the orthodoxies of his time to produce some of the 19th century’s most witty and original verse. Sexually and morally tortured, he died at a tragically early age, his health destroyed by his devotion to the cause of Florence Nightingale. In this study, Rupert Christiansen draws on newly discovered documents to present a dramatic portrait of a maverick figure, whose radical ideas about politics, religion, and women will make him vividly sympathetic to modern readers.
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“A compelling and evocative biography of the most interesting and most modern of Victorian poets.” -- Francis Wheen, author of Karl Marx: A Life
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- PublisherShort Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0571208150
- ISBN 13 9780571208159
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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