among the great innovators of Victorian poetry to two remarkable verse-novels, The Bothie of Tober-Na-Vuolich and the epistolary Amours de Voyage. "The Bothie" (summed up by Humbert Wolfe as "a school-boy shout on escaping from school into the air") was completed in 1848, the year that Clough, having previously resigned an Oxford fellowship, refused to take holy orders. By the end of the following October he had finished the first draft of Amours de Voyage, again using the classical hexameter to open up new syntactic and idiomatic possibilities in English verse. This week's poem is an extract: the magnificent set-piece that is Letter VII (Claude to Eustace), Canto 2.
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: Amours de Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough
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