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About the book >.>.> There has not been a of Arthur Hugh Clough for some thirty years. From the 1860s it was not uncommon to regard Clough as an equal partner of a poetic fraternity whose other members were Tennyson Browning and Arnold. His poetry declined in reputation during the first half of the twentieth century but was brought back into the public eye during the Second World War. In 1941 Winston Churchill anxious to secure American co-operation in the fight against Hitler broadcast some lines from ‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’ which ended ‘Westward look the land is bright’. In the post-war years several critics have been willing to hail Clough as the most modern of Victorian poets. This biography stresses the close links between Clough’s life and his poems and pays particular attention to his love poetry and his associations with the many women who played an important part in his life. Arthur Hugh Clough was born in Liverpool in 1819 and educated in Charleston South Carolina and at Rugby School. A scholar of Balliol College Oxford he was elected a Fellow of Oriel in 1842. He was a teacher and later colleague of Matthew Arnold who immortalized their friendship in two of his most famous poems. In 1848 Clough gave up his Oxford posts because he had ceased to accept Anglican orthodoxy; he left a record of his religious journeyings in remarkable poetry both devout and sceptical. He went to seek his fortune in Massachussetts but returned to England