Acquisitions (70): Arthur Hugh Clough

F. L. Mulhauser, ed.: The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough (1974)

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Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)


The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough (1974)
[Pegasus Books, Wellington - 12/6/2022]:

Mulhauser, F. L., ed. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. 1951. Second Edition. Translations edited by Jane Turner. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

Petone Settlers Museum (Wellington, NZ)

We were in Wellington last weekend for the launch of Bronwyn's brilliant new exhibition "History Repeats" at the Petone Settlers' Museum.

This involved getting up early on Saturday morning to take an Air New Zealand flight down to the capital, attending a late morning event, then driving back into the CBD to check into our hotel and do a bit of bookshopping (for me) and gallery-hopping (for Bronwyn).

Arty Bees Books (Wellington)

Would to God we'd had the sense to book a late afternoon flight back home instead of staying on overnight! And would to God, too, that I'd resisted the temptation to make the most of our trip away by making the flight home a late rather than an early afternoon one.

John Bisset: Thunderstorm watch

Needless to say, we were delayed. By a whole day, in fact. Air New Zealand doesn't control the weather, and the mass of thunderstorms which blanketed the country that weekend was (we're told) very unusual, and bound to disrupt travel - especially in a city such as Wellington, with its high hills and notoriously windy climate.

Concrete Playground: Pegasus Books (2015)

Looking on the bright side, though, I did get the chance to visit a few bookshops while I was there, and picked up a few trifles to add to my collections.

At first, conscious of the need to save space, I was pretty conservative in my choices. On the second trawl through, though, on Sunday morning, I threw caution to the winds and added a few larger, heavier volumes. The first of these was a slightly battered copy of Martin Gardner's annotated Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

Martin Gardner: The Annotated Ancient Mariner (1965)

I already had a paperback copy of this, but there's something rather magnificent about the oversized, profusely illustrated original.

The second was the Oxford English Texts edition of The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough pictured at the top of this post. The only reason I hesitated over this when I first saw it was because I already have a couple of copies of his poetical works:

Arthur Hugh Clough: Poems (1877)

Poems. 1891. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903.

The Poems. Ed. A. L. P. Norrington. Oxford Standard Authors. 1967. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Thorpe, Michael, ed. A Choice of Clough’s Verse. Faber Paper Covered Editions. London: Faber, 1969.

Arthur Hugh Clough: The Poems (1968)

I assumed (wrongly, as it turned out) that all the poems by him I actually needed to read were already included in the Oxford Standard Authors volume, and those left out of that book could be found in the older, Victorian text.

I'm very glad I went back for it, though. On closer examination, it turns out that the 1968 selection was based on an earlier version of the Oxford English Texts edition, somewhat compromised by disagreements among its three editors about just what in Clough's work merited preservation.

In 1951, his reputation was at its nadir, and he'd been relegated to the role of a mere footnote to the major movers and shakers of Victorian poetry: Arnold, Browning, Tennyson and the like. By 1974, he'd undergone a bit of a renaissance, and it no longer seemed appropriate to exclude such unfinished works as "Mari Magno" and the bulk of his verse translations from the canon.

This second edition accordingly takes an entirely fresh look at Clough, using the (extensive) new manuscript evidence to reverse some of the pruning and bowdlerising his work received when it was collected by his widow after his untimely death.

I'm still fond of that beautifully printed, very readable Oxford Standard Authors edition, but there's no doubt that any real appreciation of Clough requires reference to the updated Oxford English Text edition. So, costly as the decision to stay in Wellington for a second day turned out to be, at least I came out of it with this splendid volume, one of several Oxford English Text editions I'm proud to own.

I've concluded this post with a list of my collection. It's both an extensive and a constantly evolving series, and the individual volumes tend now to be prohibitively expensive. The complex relationship between the "Oxford English Texts" and "Oxford Standard Authors", too, while simple in principle - the first for technical details of ms. provenance and copytext, the second to provide sound, readable texts - can be quite complex in practice.

Revisions and whole new editions of authors appear continually, and as a consequence the two series cannot be expected to march entirely in tandem. I've therefore listed in bold the books I own from both of these series, while including any other details I've managed to glean in more summary form. How does Clough himself put it?

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light,
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.

Michael Thorpe, ed.: A Choice of Clough's Verse (1969)

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John Clare: The Later Poems of John Clare, 1837-1864. Vol. 8 of 9 (1984-2003)

Oxford English Texts

Books I own are marked in bold:

1. William Blake (1757-1827)
   • Prophetic Writings. Ed. D. J. Sloss & J. P. R. Wallis. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
   • Writings. Volume 1: Engraved and Etched Writings. Ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
   • Writings. Volume 2: Writings in Conventional Typography and in Manuscript. Ed. G. E. Bentley, Jr. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
2. Robert Browning (1812-1889)
   • The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Ed. Ian Jack, Margaret Smith, Rowena Fowler, Stefan Hawlin & Michael Meredith. 15 vols. Oxford English Texts (1983-2009)
   • Poetical Works, 1833-1864. Ed. Ian Jack. 1970. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
3. John Bunyan (1628-1688)
   • The Pilgrim's Progress. Ed. J. B. Whary. 2nd ed. Rev. R. Sharrock. Oxford English Texts
   • Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. Ed. R. Sharrock. Oxford English Texts
   • The Pilgrim’s Progress. 1678 & 1684. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Biographical Introduction by Edmund Venables, M.A., revised by Miss Mabel Peacock. Oxford Standard Authors. 1904. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1945.
   • Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to come. 1666, 1678, & 1684. Ed. Roger Sharrock. 1962 & 1960. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
4. Robert Burns (1759-1796)
   • Poems and Songs. Ed. James Kinsley. Oxford English Texts
   • The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns. 4 vols. Ed. Nigel Leask & Kirsteen McCue. Oxford English Texts (2014-2021)
5. Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
   • Hudibras. Ed. John Wilders. 1967. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
6. George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
   • The Complete Poetical Works. Ed. Jerome J. McGann & Barry Weller. 7 vols. Oxford English Texts (1980-1993)
   • The Complete Poetical Works. Volume 1. Ed. Jerome J. McGann. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
   • Poetical Works. Ed. Frederick Page. 1904. Rev. John D. Jump. 1970. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
7. Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
   • The Works. Ed. Percival Vivian. 1909. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.
8. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)
   • The Poems with His Masque Coelum Brittanicum. Ed. Rhodes Dunlap. 1949. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
9. Caroline Poets
   • Minor Poets of the Caroline Period. Ed. George Saintsbury. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts
10. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)
    • The Complete Works. Ed. Donald S. Taylor & Benjamn B. Hoover. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
11. John Clare (1793-1864)
    • The Poetry of John Clare. Ed. Eric Robinson, David Powell, Margaret Grainger & P. M. S. Dawson. 9 vols. Oxford English Texts (1984-2003)
    • John Clare. Ed. Eric Robinson & David Powell. The Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
12. Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
    • Mulhauser, F. L., ed. The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough. 1951. Second Edition. Translations edited by Jane Turner. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
    • The Poems. Ed. A. L. P. Norrington. Oxford Standard Authors. 1967. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
    • Poems, including the Dramas. Ed. E. H. Coleridge. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, ed. The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Including Poems and Version of Poems Herein Published for the First Time. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1935.
14. William Cowper (1731-1800)
    • The Poems of William Cowper. Ed. John D. Baird & Charles Ryskamp. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts (1980-1995)
    • The Poems of William Cowper. 1905. Oxford Standard Authors. Ed. H. S. Milford. 4th Edition. 1934. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
15. Richard Crashaw (c.1613-1649)
    • The Poems: English, Latin and Greek. Ed. L. C. Martin. 1927. Second ed. 1957. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
16. Thomas Deloney (c.1543-1600)
    • Works. Ed. F. O. Mann. Oxford English Texts
17. John Donne (1572-1631)
    • Poems. Ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Divine Poems. Ed. Helen Gardner. 1952. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
    • Elegies, Songs and Sonnets. Ed. Helen Gardner. Oxford English Texts
    • Satires, Epigrams and Verse. Ed. W. Milgate. Oxford English Texts
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson. Oxford Standard Authors. 1933. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
18. John Dryden (1631-1700)
    • Poems. Ed. James Kinsley. 4 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Poems and Fables. Ed. James Kinley. 1958. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962.
19. John Evelyn (1620-1706)
    • Diary. Ed. E. S. De Beer. 6 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Diary. Ed. E. S. de Beer. 1955. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959.
20. John Gay (1685-1732)
    • Poetry and Prose. Ed. Vinton A. Dearing & Charles E. Beckwith. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • Faber, G. C., ed. The Poetical Works of John Gay, including ‘Polly’. ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ and Selections from the other Dramatic Work. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1926.
21. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
    • Poems. Ed. H. W. Starr & J. R. Hendrickson. Oxford English Texts
    • Poems Published in 1768. The Oxford Miscellany. London: Henry Frowde / Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1909.
    • Poole, Austin Lane, ed. Gray and Collins: Poetical Works. 1919. Rev. ed. Leonard Whibley & Frederick Page. 1937. Oxford Standard Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.
22. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
    • The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Ed. Samuel Hynes. 5 vols. Oxford English Texts (1982-1995)
    • The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy. Volume 1: Wessex Poems; Poems of the Past and the Present; Time’s Laughingstocks. 1898, 1901, 1909. Illustrated by the Author. Ed. Samuel Hynes. 5 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
    • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Ed. Richard Little Purdy, Michael Millgate & Keith Wilson. 8 vols. Oxford English Texts (1977-2012).
    • The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy. Volume III: 1902-1908. Ed. Richard Little Purdy & Michael Millgate. 8 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
23. William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
    • New Writings of William Hazlitt. Ed. Duncan Wu. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts (2007)
24. George Herbert (1593-1633)
    • Works. Ed. F. E. Hutchinson. Oxford English Texts
25. Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648)
    • Poems (Latin and English). Ed. G. C. Moore Smith. Oxford English Texts
26. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. L. C. Martin. Oxford English Texts
    • The Poems. Ed. L. C. Martin. 1956. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
27. A. E. Housman (1859-1936)
    • The Poems of A. E. Housman. Ed. Archie Burnett. Oxford English Texts (1997)
    • The Letters of A. E. Housman. Ed. Archie Burnett. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts (2007)
28. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
    • The Poems. Ed. David Nichol-Smith and Edward L. MacAdam. 1941. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
    • Samuel Johnson. Ed. Donald Greene. The Oxford Authors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
29. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
    • The Oxford Jonson. Volume VIII: The Poems / The Prose Works. Ed. C. H. Herford, Percy & Evelyn Simpson. 1947. 11 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
    • Poems. Ed. Ian Donaldson. Oxford Paperbacks. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
30. John Keats (1795-1821)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. H. W. Garrod. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • The Poetical Works. Ed. H. Buxton Forman. 1908. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1953.
    • The Letters. Ed. Maurice Buxton Forman. 1931. 4th Ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1952.
31. Mary Leapor (1722-1746)
    • The Works of Mary Leapor. Ed. Richard Greene & Ann Messenger. Oxford English Texts (2003)
32. Richard Lovelace (1618-1657)
    • The Poems. Ed. C. H. Wilkinson. 1930. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
33. Sir Thomas Malory (c.1405–1471)
    • Vinaver, Eugène, ed. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. 1947. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1948.
    • Vinaver, Eugène, ed. The Works of Sir Thomas Malory. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1954.
34. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
    • Poems and Letters. Ed. H. M. Margoliouth. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • The Rehearsal Transpros'd and The Rehearsal Transpros'd: The Second Part. Ed. D. I. B. Smith. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
35. John Milton (1608-1674)
    • The Poetical Works. Ed. H. C. Beeching. London: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1925.
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Helen Darbishire. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts (1952 & 1955)
    • The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Translations of the Italian, Latin and Greek Poems from the Columbia University Edition. Ed. Helen Darbishire. Oxford Standard Authors. 1952, 1955. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Douglas Bush. Oxford Standard Authors. 1966. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
36. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
    • Apologia pro vita sua. Ed. M. J. Svaglic. Oxford English Texts
37. Dorothy Osborne (1627–1695)
    • Letters to William Temple. Ed. G. C. Moore Smith. Oxford English Texts
38. Matthew Prior (1664-1721)
    • Literary Works. Ed. H. Bunker Wright & Monroe K. Spears. 2 vols. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
39. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
    • The Dramatic Works. Ed. Cecil Price. Oxford English Texts
40. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
    • The Poems. Ed. William A. Ringler, Jr. 1962. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
    • Miscellaneous Prose. Ed. Katherine Duncan Jones & Jan Van Dorsten. Oxford English Texts
41. Christopher Smart (1722-1781)
    • The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart. Ed. Karina Williamson & Ann Belcher. 6 vols. Oxford English Texts (1980-1996)
42. Robert Southwell (1561–1595)
    • Poems. Ed. J. H. McDonald & N. P. Brown. Oxford English Texts
43. Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
    • Minor Poems. Ed. E. de Selincourt. Oxford English Texts
    • Faerie Queene. Ed. J. C. Smith. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • Poetical Works. Ed. J. C. Smith & E. de Selincourt. 1912. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
44. Sir John Suckling (1609-1642)
    • The Plays. Ed. L. A. Beauline. Oxford English Texts
    • Non-Dramatic Works. Ed. Thomas Clayton. Oxford English Texts (1971)
45. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
    • A Tale of a Tub; To which is added The Battle of the Books and the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. Together with The History of Martin, Wotton's Observations upon the Tale of a Tub, Curll's Complete Key, etc. Ed. E. C. Guthkelch & D. Nichol Smith. 1920. Second ed. 1958. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968.
    • Satires and Personal Writings. Ed. William Alfred Eddy. 1932. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
    • The Poems. Ed. Harold Williams. 1937. Second ed. 1958. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.
    • Journal to Stella. Ed. Harold Williams. 1948. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
    • Gulliver’s Travels and Other Writings: A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, &c. Ed. Louis A. Landa. 1960. Oxford Paperbacks. London & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Herbert Davis. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
    • Major Works: Including A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books. Ed. Angus Ross & David Wooley. 1984. Oxford World's Classics. 2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
46. James Thomson (1700-1748)
    • The Seasons. Ed. James Sambrook. Oxford English Texts (1981)
    • Liberty, The Castle of Indolence, and Other Poems. Ed. James Sambrook. Oxford English Texts (1986)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. J. Logie Robertson. Oxford Standard Authors. 1908. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
47. Thomas Traherne (c.1636/7-c.1674)
    • Centuries, Poems and Thanksgivings. Ed. H. M. Margoliouth. 1958. 2 vols. Oxford English Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
    • Poems, Centuries and Three Thanksgivings. Ed. Anne Ridler. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
48. Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
    • Works. Ed. L. C. Martin. 2nd ed. Oxford English Texts
    • Poetry and Selected Prose. Ed. L. C. Martin. 1957. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
49. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
    • Poetical Works. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt & Helen Darbishire. 5 vols. Oxford English Texts
    • The Prelude. Ed. Ernest de Selincourt. 2nd ed. Rev. Helen Darbishire. Oxford English Texts
    • The Prose Works. Ed. Jane Worthington Smyser & W. J. B. Owen. 3 vols. Oxford English Texts (1974)
    • Hutchinson, Thomas, ed. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. 1904. Rev. Ernest de Selincourt. 1950. Oxford Standard Authors. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press, 1951.

William Wordsworth: Prose Works (1974)

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