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The Voice of Victorian Sex: Arthur H Clough 1819-1861 [Paperback]

Rupert Christiansen


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8 May 2001 Short Lives
Arthur Hugh Clough is the great undiscovered genius of Victorian literature. The golden hope of his generation at Rugby and Oxford, he battled against the orthodoxies of his time to produce some of the 19th century's most witty and original verse. Sexually and morally tortured, he died at a tragically early age, his health destroyed by his devotion to the cause of Florence Nightingale. In this study, Rupert Christiansen draws on newly discovered documents to present a dramatic portrait of a maverick figure, whose radical ideas about politics, religion, and women will make him vividly sympathetic to modern readers.

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Despite its silly title, no doubt intended to attract Frank Harris and My Secret Life aficionados around the world, Rupert Christiansen's The Voice of Victorian Sex: Arthur H Clough 1819-61 is quite a good little introduction to Clough, second only to Browning and Tennyson in his importance as a mid-Victorian poet and cultural critic. Christiansen, the author of the impressive recent The Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain, has not so much rediscovered Clough, as he claims--literary scholars have been assessing and reassessing him for years--as presented him and his thoughtful poetry in an interesting and accessible manner. One of the best of the "Short Lives" rather hit-and-miss series. --Miles Taylor

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