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Article
Abstract
Discusses Arthur Hugh Clough's American connections, focusing on his childhood in Charleston, South Carolina, in the years 1822-1828, examining three poems relating his Charleston years, one written at 16 when he was at Rugby, one written at 24 (an epitaph for his brother's gravestone at St Michael's, Charleston), and one written at 30, the famous lyric "Say not the struggle," suggesting that the third stanza recalls childhood summers on Sullivan's Island. The introduction discusses Clough's friendship with such American writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, and the importance of America in the publication and reception of his work, while the final section discusses his return to the United States in 1852-53, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, his attitudes as an adult to American politics, citizenship, and slavery, and (through a poem he wrote on the voyage across) the changing experience of transatlantic travel.
Publication Info
2019.
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