Arthur Hugh Clough — a remark

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“Ignorance is a poor kind of innocence. The world is wiser than the wise, and as innocent as the innocent; and it has long been found out what is the best way of taking things.”

Arguing that genuine understanding requires experience beyond sheltered learning · Letter to a friend, 19 June 1850

About Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough

1 January 1819–13 November 1861

Arthur Hugh Clough, born in Liverpool on 1 January 1819 and dead in Florence on 13 November 1861, occupies an unusual and compelling place in nineteenth-century English poetry. He was a Victorian poet, but he often sounds impatient with the assurances conventionally associated with Victorian verse: confidence in…

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