Arthur Hugh Clough

by John Schad

Swinburne called him a bad poet, Tennyson called him dull, Saintsbury called him thin. John Schad celebrates Clough the anti-poet, a loving laureate of the extraordinary dull, who is so thin we can see through, or beyond him. Clough, argues Schad, never gets in the way of the world, or worlds, of which he writes. And these worlds are many: ranging from the orthodox world of the Anglican Oxford that Clough famously abandons, through the turbulent worlds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746311664
• ISBN13: 9780746311660
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"