Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) was a lyric poet, born at Liverpool. He was son of a cotton merchant. Educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold, whom he held in the highest regard. He was at Oxford, as a Fellow of Oriel, at the time of the Tractarian movement, which he arrayed himself against, and at length turned his back upon and tore himself away from by foreign travel. On his return he was appointed examiner in the Education Office. Falling ill from overwork he went abroad again, and died at Florence. He was all alive to the tendencies of the time, and his lyrics show his sense of these, and how he fronted them. In the speculative scepticism of the time his only refuge and safety-anchor was duty. Matthew Arnold has written in his "Thyrsis" a tribute to his memory such as has been written over few. His best-known poem is "The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich".

Wisdom & Quotes

• 'Tis better to have fought and lost,

Than never to have fought at all.
- Peschiera

Alexander Crummell