Clough’s collected poems range from early pieces of conscience and religious struggle written at Rugby and Oxford to the long hexameter poem The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, in which a reading party of Oxford undergraduates goes to the Scottish Highlands and one of them falls for a crofter’s daughter. Shorter lyrics on faith, duty and scepticism fill out the book.
The work of Matthew Arnold’s friend and the subject of his elegy Thyrsis, a voice of honest Victorian doubt. Download the free EPUB.