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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough has long been valued as a representative "Victorian doubter" who expressed through his poetry the bewildering religious controversies of the period. He has a reputation, too, as an accomplished lyric poet, and some of his shorter, more optimistic poems (such as the well-known "Say not, the struggle naught availeth") have found their way into the standard anthologies and even into several hymnbooks. But the publication of much more complete Clough editions in 1951 and 1974 has made it clear that religious doubt was only one among his many poetic concerns, and recent readers have come most to appreciate Clough's satiric wit and the ironic complexity of his work; his reputation now rests less on his shorter religious lyrics than on his three major poems--The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich, Amours de VoyageDipsychus,and Clough's poems are far from perfect; they were often unfinished, drastically changed in idea...
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