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Arthur Hugh Clough
1819–1861
A thoughtful Victorian poet whose work wrestles with faith, doubt, and the pressure to live honestly. His poems still feel surprisingly modern in the way they face uncertainty without easy answers.
3 Audiobooks
Prose remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, with a selection from his letters and a memoir
by Arthur Hugh Clough
Amours De Voyage
by Arthur Hugh Clough
Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough
by Arthur Hugh Clough
About the author
Born in Liverpool on January 1, 1819, Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, teacher, and public servant whose writing reflects the moral and religious tensions of the Victorian age. He spent part of his childhood in Charleston, South Carolina, later studied at Rugby School and Oxford, and became closely associated with the intellectual life of his time.
Clough first planned for a career in the church, but growing religious skepticism led him away from that path. That inner conflict shaped much of his best-known poetry, which is admired for its honesty, intelligence, and restless questioning rather than polished certainty.
He was also a friend of Matthew Arnold and later worked in the Education Office, as well as serving as an assistant to Florence Nightingale. Clough died in Florence on November 13, 1861, leaving behind poems that capture both the anxieties and the energy of a changing century.