Arthur Hugh Clough: The Critical Heritage (The Collected Critical Heritage : Victorian Poets)

430 Pages·1996·0.48 MB·English

by  Michael Thorpe

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES
General Editor: B.C.Southam
The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism
on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary
responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the
formation of critical attitudes to the writer’s work and its place within
a literary tradition.
The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the
history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little
published documentary material, such as letters and diaries.
Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included
in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the
writer’s death.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH
THE CRITICAL HERITAGE
Edited by
MICHAEL THORPE
London and New York
First Published in 1972

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.
Compilation, introduction, notes and index © 1972 Michael Thorpe
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ISBN 0-415-13452-8 (Print Edition)
ISBN 0-203-19443-8 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-19446-2 (Glassbook Format)
General Editor’s Preface
The reception given to a writer by his contemporaries and
nearcontemporaries is evidence of considerable value to the student
of literature. On one side we learn a great deal about the state of
criticism at large and in particular about the development of critical
attitudes towards a single writer; at the same time, through private
comments in letters, journals or marginalia, we gain an insight upon
the tastes and literary thought of individual readers of the period.
Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writer’s historical
situation, the nature of his immediate reading-public, and his response
to these pressures.
The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a
record of this early criticism. Clearly, for many of the highly
productive and lengthily reviewed nineteenth- and twentieth-century
writers, there exists an enormous body of material; and in these cases
the volume editors have made a selection of the most important views,
significant for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative
quality— perhaps even registering incomprehension!
For earlier writers, notably pre-eighteenth century, the materials
are much scarcer and the historical period has been extended,
sometimes far beyond the writer’s lifetime, in order to show the
inception and growth of critical views which were initially slow
to appear.
In each volume the documents are headed by an Introduction,
discussing the material assembled and relating the early stages of the
author’s reception to what we have come to identify as the critical
tradition. The volumes will make available much material which
would otherwise be difficult of access and it is hoped that the modern
reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of
the ways in which literature has been read and judged.
B.C.S.

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Contents
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
PREFACE xiii
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE xvi
INTRODUCTION 1
The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich (1848)
1 MATTHEW ARNOLD to Clough 1848 28
2 THACKERAY to Clough 1848 30
3 Notice in Spectator 1848 31
4 EDWARD QUILLINAN to Henry Crabb Robinson 1849 32
5 EMERSON to Clough 1849 33
6 J.A.FROUDE to Clough 1849 34
7 CHARLES KINGSLEY, review in Fraser’s Magazine 1849 37
8 EMERSON, review in Massachusetts Quarterly Review 1849 47
9 Review in Literary Gazette 1849 49
10 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING to Miss Mitford 1849 53
11 W.M.ROSSETTI, review in the Germ 1850 54
12 WILLIAM WHEWELL, review in North British Review 1853 65
13 MATTHEW ARNOLD, from On Translating Homer 1861 69
Ambarvalia (1849)
14 MATTHEW ARNOLD to Clough 1847–9 71
15 Review in Spectator 1849 74
16 Review in Athenaeum 1849 76
17 Review in Guardian 1849 78
18 Review in Literary Gazette 1849 85
19 JOHN CONINGTON (?), from a review in Fraser’s Magazine 1849 88
20 Review in Rambler 1849 93
21 Review in Prospective Review 1850 98
Two tributes (1861)
22 A Commemorative Appreciation in Saturday Review 1861 101
23 MATTHEW ARNOLD’S Oxford Tribute 1861 106
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CONTENTS
Poems by Arthur Hugh Clough (1862)
(including Amours de Voyage, 1858)
24 FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE’S ‘Memoir’ 1862 108
25 Clough and J.C.SHAIRP, an exchange on Amours de Voyage
1849 121
26 EMERSON on Amours de Voyage 1858 124
27 CHARLES ELIOT NORTON in Atlantic Monthly 1862 125
28 Review in Saturday Review 1862 130
29 HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY, review in Athenaeum 1862 135
30 DAVID MASSON, review in Macmillan’s Magazine 1862 139
31 G.H.LEWES, review in Cornhill Magazine 1862 155
32 Review in Church and State Review 1862 157
33 WALTER BAGEHOT on Clough, National Review 1862 161
34 W.Y.SELLAR, from a review in North British Review 1862 175
35 From a review in Boston Review 1863 195
Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough (1865)
36 WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, from an article in Fraser’s Magazine 1866 200
37 W.H.SMITH, from an article in Macmillan’s Magazine 1866 207
The Poems and Prose Remains (1869)
38 JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, a new appraisal in Fortnightly
Review 1868 219
39 R.H.HUTTON, from a review in Spectator 1869 250
40 Review in Saturday Review 1869 261
41 HENRY SIDGWICK, review in Westminster Review 1869 268
42 From a review in Putnam’s Magazine 1869 293
Later estimates (to 1920)
43 EDWARD DOWDEN on Clough, 1874, 1877 296
44 BISHOP ARTHUR T.LYTTELTON on Arnold and Clough 1878 298
45 Clough and Arnold, review in Nation 1878 310
46 SAMUEL WADDINGTON, from the first biography 1883 311
47 R.H.HUTTON on Clough’s unpopularity, Spectator 1882 320
48 R.H.HUTTON, ‘Amiel and Clough’, Spectator 1886 324
49 Review in Saturday Review 1888 330
50 COVENTRY PATMORE on Clough, St. James’s Gazette 1888 335
51 LIONEL JOHNSON, from a review in Academy 1891 339
52 A.C.SWINBURNE debunks Clough in Forum 1891 340
53 GEORGE SAINTSBURY on Clough 1896 341
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54 J.M.ROBERTSON re-appraises Clough 1897 343
55 A retort to Robertson in Academy 1897 365
56 E.FORSTER supports Robertson in Academy 1897 368
57 STOPFORD A.BROOKE on Clough 1908 370
58 Article on Clough in Contemporary Review 1914 384
59 MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD, essay for the Clough Centenary
1919 388
60 JAMES INSLEY OSBORNE, from his centenary biography 1920 397
61 A.S.MCDOWALL reviews Osborne, The Times Literary
Supplement 1920 399
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 404
INDEX 405
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