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Persephone has produced a lovely illustrated edition of this masterpiece. Clough lived ahead of his time, and his Claude is an 'antihero', rather like Eliot's J Alfred Prufrock, whose deliberations and hesitations are brilliant comedy. Clough was a connoisseur of revolutions; he had been the previous year in Paris to see the events of 1848, but he had no illusions. He wrote Amours in Rome during the siege of Garibaldi's Roman Republic - ironically by the forces of Republican France. Claude wonders "Am I prepared to lay down my life for the British female?", and his five reasons for not fighting are hilarious. Besides being an insightful account of a young man's confusion, the poem is a fascinating first-hand account of important historic events.
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Apparently this is one of Julian Barnes's ten favourite books; but to me it seems a rather obscure choice for Persephone. Anyway, there seems little point in re-publishing it as the text is readily available on-line from a number of sites including wikisource. Written in 1849, it is an epistolary novella in verse, set during the political turmoil of the Siege of Rome of that year. Claude and the Trevellyn family are English tourists, Claude a rather droopy and snobbish young man who is completely unimpressed by Rome. (Think Cecil in A Room with a View.) Claude is a man who cannot commit. Or seize the day. He is attracted to Mary, can't bring himself to propose, only decides that he wants her after she leaves Rome ... then ineffectually pursues her to Como. And doesn't catch up with her. The tone veers between the drily colloquial (when it seems fresh and very modern) and Claude's ponderous musings - which are simply too dire for the modern reader! My advice, read it online for curiosity value only.
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this item purports to be Amours de Voyage, but what it really is, is only a list of the parts of Amours de voyage. No actual text arrives.
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