An adult poet in the nineteenth century. There weren’t so many of them.” Graham Greene’s jaded protagonist in The Quiet American, Thomas Fowler, offered this praise for the little-known Victorian poet Arthur Hugh Clough. Greene himself counted Clough as a favorite poet, and, in fact, it was the novelist who brought him to the attention of philosopher Anthony (...)
June 01, 2007
Books
A Victorian for Grownups
Arthur Hugh CloughA Poet’s LifeAnthony KennyContinuum, $60, 288 pp.
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