ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE THE CRITICAL HERITAGE SERIES General Editor: B.C.Southam The Critical Heritage series collects together a large body of criticism on major figures in literature. Each volume presents the contemporary responses to a particular writer, enabling the student to follow the formation of critical attitudes to the writer’s work and its place within a literary tradition. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to fragments of contemporary opinion and little published documentary material, such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included in order to demonstrate fluctuations in reputation following the writer’s death. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH THE CRITICAL HERITAGE Edited by MICHAEL THORPE London and New York First Published in 1972 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P4EE & 29 West 35th Street New York, NY 10001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. Compilation, introduction, notes and index © 1972 Michael Thorpe All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ISBN 0-415-13452-8 (Print Edition) ISBN 0-203-19443-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-19446-2 (Glassbook Format) General Editor’s Preface The reception given to a writer by his contemporaries and nearcontemporaries is evidence of considerable value to the student of literature. On one side we learn a great deal about the state of criticism at large and in particular about the development of critical attitudes towards a single writer; at the same time, through private comments in letters, journals or marginalia, we gain an insight upon the tastes and literary thought of individual readers of the period. Evidence of this kind helps us to understand the writer’s historical situation, the nature of his immediate reading-public, and his response to these pressures. The separate volumes in the Critical Heritage Series present a record of this early criticism. Clearly, for many of the highly productive and lengthily reviewed nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, there exists an enormous body of material; and in these cases the volume editors have made a selection of the most important views, significant for their intrinsic critical worth or for their representative quality— perhaps even registering incomprehension! For earlier writers, notably pre-eighteenth century, the materials are much scarcer and the historical period has been extended, sometimes far beyond the writer’s lifetime, in order to show the inception and growth of critical views which were initially slow to appear. In each volume the documents are headed by an Introduction, discussing the material assembled and relating the early stages of the author’s reception to what we have come to identify as the critical tradition. The volumes will make available much material which would otherwise be difficult of access and it is hoped that the modern reader will be thereby helped towards an informed understanding of the ways in which literature has been read and judged. B.C.S. v Contents page ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi PREFACE xiii CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE xvi INTRODUCTION 1 The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich (1848) 1 MATTHEW ARNOLD to Clough 1848 28 2 THACKERAY to Clough 1848 30 3 Notice in Spectator 1848 31 4 EDWARD QUILLINAN to Henry Crabb Robinson 1849 32 5 EMERSON to Clough 1849 33 6 J.A.FROUDE to Clough 1849 34 7 CHARLES KINGSLEY, review in Fraser’s Magazine 1849 37 8 EMERSON, review in Massachusetts Quarterly Review 1849 47 9 Review in Literary Gazette 1849 49 10 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING to Miss Mitford 1849 53 11 W.M.ROSSETTI, review in the Germ 1850 54 12 WILLIAM WHEWELL, review in North British Review 1853 65 13 MATTHEW ARNOLD, from On Translating Homer 1861 69 Ambarvalia (1849) 14 MATTHEW ARNOLD to Clough 1847–9 71 15 Review in Spectator 1849 74 16 Review in Athenaeum 1849 76 17 Review in Guardian 1849 78 18 Review in Literary Gazette 1849 85 19 JOHN CONINGTON (?), from a review in Fraser’s Magazine 1849 88 20 Review in Rambler 1849 93 21 Review in Prospective Review 1850 98 Two tributes (1861) 22 A Commemorative Appreciation in Saturday Review 1861 101 23 MATTHEW ARNOLD’S Oxford Tribute 1861 106 vii CONTENTS Poems by Arthur Hugh Clough (1862) (including Amours de Voyage, 1858) 24 FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE’S ‘Memoir’ 1862 108 25 Clough and J.C.SHAIRP, an exchange on Amours de Voyage 1849 121 26 EMERSON on Amours de Voyage 1858 124 27 CHARLES ELIOT NORTON in Atlantic Monthly 1862 125 28 Review in Saturday Review 1862 130 29 HENRY FOTHERGILL CHORLEY, review in Athenaeum 1862 135 30 DAVID MASSON, review in Macmillan’s Magazine 1862 139 31 G.H.LEWES, review in Cornhill Magazine 1862 155 32 Review in Church and State Review 1862 157 33 WALTER BAGEHOT on Clough, National Review 1862 161 34 W.Y.SELLAR, from a review in North British Review 1862 175 35 From a review in Boston Review 1863 195 Letters and Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough (1865) 36 WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, from an article in Fraser’s Magazine 1866 200 37 W.H.SMITH, from an article in Macmillan’s Magazine 1866 207 The Poems and Prose Remains (1869) 38 JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS, a new appraisal in Fortnightly Review 1868 219 39 R.H.HUTTON, from a review in Spectator 1869 250 40 Review in Saturday Review 1869 261 41 HENRY SIDGWICK, review in Westminster Review 1869 268 42 From a review in Putnam’s Magazine 1869 293 Later estimates (to 1920) 43 EDWARD DOWDEN on Clough, 1874, 1877 296 44 BISHOP ARTHUR T.LYTTELTON on Arnold and Clough 1878 298 45 Clough and Arnold, review in Nation 1878 310 46 SAMUEL WADDINGTON, from the first biography 1883 311 47 R.H.HUTTON on Clough’s unpopularity, Spectator 1882 320 48 R.H.HUTTON, ‘Amiel and Clough’, Spectator 1886 324 49 Review in Saturday Review 1888 330 50 COVENTRY PATMORE on Clough, St. James’s Gazette 1888 335 51 LIONEL JOHNSON, from a review in Academy 1891 339 52 A.C.SWINBURNE debunks Clough in Forum 1891 340 53 GEORGE SAINTSBURY on Clough 1896 341 viii CONTENTS 54 J.M.ROBERTSON re-appraises Clough 1897 343 55 A retort to Robertson in Academy 1897 365 56 E.FORSTER supports Robertson in Academy 1897 368 57 STOPFORD A.BROOKE on Clough 1908 370 58 Article on Clough in Contemporary Review 1914 384 59 MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD, essay for the Clough Centenary 1919 388 60 JAMES INSLEY OSBORNE, from his centenary biography 1920 397 61 A.S.MCDOWALL reviews Osborne, The Times Literary Supplement 1920 399 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 404 INDEX 405 ix