Arthur Hugh Clough

 

 

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Literatur: Clough
Literatur: Poetologische Lyrik

 

5   Is it true, ye gods, who treat us
As the gambling fool is treated,
O ye, who ever cheat us,
And let us feel we're cheated!
Is it true that poetical power,
10   The gift of heaven, the dower
Of Apollo and the Nine,
The inborn sense, "the vision and the faculty divine,"
All we glorify and bless
In our rapturous exaltation,
15   All invention, and creation,
Exuberance of fancy, and sublime imagination,
[64] All a poet's fame is built on,
The fame of Shakespeare, Milton,
Of Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley,
20   Is in reason's grave precision,
Nothing more, nothing less,
Than a peculiar conformation,
Constitution, and condition
Of the brain and of the belly?
25   Is it true, ye gods who cheat us?
And that's the way ye treat us?

Oh say it, all who think it,
Look straight, and never blink it!
If it is so, let it be so,
  And we will all agree so;
But the plot has counterplot,
It may be, and yet be not.

 

 

 

 

Erstdruck und Druckvorlage

Ambarvalia.
Poems by Thomas Burbidge and Arthur H. Clough.
London: Chapman and Hall 1849, S. 63-64.

PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9c54w687
URL: https://archive.org/details/ambarvaliapoems00burb
URL: https://books.google.fr/books?id=hMhPAAAAcAAJ

 

 

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Literatur: Clough

Christ, Carol T.: Victorian Poetics. In: A Companion to Victorian Poetry. Hrsg. von Richard Cronin u.a. Malden, MA 2002, S. 1-21.

Kenny, Arthur: Arthur Hugh Clough. A Poet's Life. London 2005.

LaPorte, Charles: Spasmodic Poetics and Clough's Apostasies. In: Victorian Poetry 42 (2004), S. 521-536.

Tate, Gregory: Superlative Clough. In: Essays in Criticism. A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism 72.1 (2022), S. 25-52.

Thorpe, Michael (Hrsg.): Arthur Hugh Clough. The Critical Heritage. London 1972.

Waithe, Marcus / White, Claire (Hrsg.): The Labour of Literature in Britain and France, 1830-1910. Authorial Work Ethics. London 2018.

 

 

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