Arthur Hugh Clough — a remark

From the V2Melody quotations library — share the card, then explore the poet and poems below.

“And simple enjoyments are, if not the most voluptuous and delicately refined, assuredly the manliest and healthiest, the most honest and rational and permanent.”

Defending modest pleasures as more enduring and honourable than ostentation · Essay on retrenchment during the Irish Famine, 1847

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…

More by Arthur Hugh Clough

Poems by Arthur Hugh Clough

All poems by this poet

More remarks by Arthur Hugh Clough

All remarks by this poet

Poet page · All remarks · Quotations hub

Skip to main content