“For poetry, like science, has its final precision; and there are…” — Arthur Hugh Clough

“For poetry, like science, has its final precision; and there are expressions of poetic knowledge which can no more be rewritten than could the elements of geometry.”

Describing great poetic language as exact, definitive and impossible to improve upon · Lecture on the poetry of Wordsworth

Arthur Hugh Clough

About 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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