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Prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, with a selection from his letters and a memoir

Chapter 18: FOOTNOTES:
By Arthur Hugh Clough
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A collected volume presents a memoir and selected letters alongside essays and lectures that map the author's intellectual development. The correspondence records personal experience, travel impressions, and friendships, while the prose pieces offer literary criticism, lectures on poetic and classical influence, and responses to contemporary social and religious questions. Occasional reviews and notes show engagement with other writers and emerging theories. The arrangement of memoir, letters, and critical essays aims to illuminate both biographical context and the author’s evolving literary and moral concerns.

FOOTNOTES:

1 Head of St. John’s, and at that time Vice-chancellor.
2 Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, at that time fellow and tutor of Balliol College.
3 Meaning the day of Lawrence Sheriffe, which is the foundation day of the school.
4 Near Conway, a house on the seashore belonging to an uncle.
5 The Rugby bookseller.
6 Clough at this time was with a reading party, which furnished him with many of the scenes and characters afterwards reproduced in his poem of the Bothie.
7 This was the scene of another reading party—
‘Up on the side of Loch Ness, in the beautiful valley of Urquhart.’
8
‘The inn by the Foyers Fall, where
Over the loch looks at you the summit of Mealfourvonie.’
The Bothie, Part iii.
9 This volume appeared in 1849, under the name of Ambarvalia.
10 After resigning his Fellowship and Tutorship at Oriel, Clough had accepted the Headship of University Hall in London, and this letter was written in consequence of a request which had been made him by the authorities.
11 The following letters from Rome were written during a tour he took in Italy before settling at University Hall. It was in the course of this tour that he wrote Amours de Voyage and Easter Day.
12 Amours de Voyage, canto ii. letter v.
13 Afterwards best known as Margaret Fuller Ossoli.
14 Amours de Voyage.
15 On Retrenchment at Oxford.
16 Before going to America, in October 1852.
17 Clough’s Plutarch. Life of Sylla, vol. iii. p. 157.
18 From the Acrocorinth watched the day
Light the eastern and the western bay.—Mari Magno.
19 With wonder in the spacious gloom
Stood of the Mycenæan tomb.—Mari Magno.
20 Mari Magno: My Tale.
21 Mari Magno: My Tale.
22 The word spoom, which Dryden uses as the verb of the substantive spume, occurs also in ‘Beaumont and Fletcher.’ Has Keats employed it? It seems hardly to deserve reimpatriation.
23 In the MS. Mr. Clough has written the first five stanzas of the poem entitled ‘Through a Glass darkly’ (ii. 93), at the head of the fragment. Though there is no date to the MS., it may with safety be referred to the last period of his life.