PROSE REMAINS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH [Illustration] PROSE REMAINS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH WITH A SELECTION FROM HIS LETTERS AND A MEMOIR _EDITED BY HIS WIFE_ London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1888 _The right of translation is reserved_ PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON CONTENTS. PAGE MEMOIR OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH 1 LETTERS FROM 1829 TO 1836. RUGBY 57 LETTERS FROM 1836 TO 1849. OXFORD 75 LETTERS FROM 1849 TO 1852. LONDON 141 LETTERS FROM 1852 TO 1853. AMERICA 187 LETTERS FROM 1853 TO 1861. LONDON 216 A CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE RETRENCHMENT ASSOCIATION AT OXFORD DURING THE IRISH FAMINE IN 1847 283 LECTURE ON THE POETRY OF WORDSWORTH 305 ON THE FORMATION OF CLASSICAL ENGLISH: AN EXTRACT FROM A LECTURE ON DRYDEN 325 LECTURE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE FROM CHAUCER TO WORDSWORTH 333 REVIEW OF SOME POEMS BY ALEXANDER SMITH AND MATTHEW ARNOLD 355 LETTERS OF PAREPIDEMUS 381 A PASSAGE UPON OXFORD STUDIES: EXTRACTED FROM A REVIEW OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMMISSIONERS’ REPORT, 1852 399 EXTRACTS FROM A REVIEW OF A WORK ENTITLED ‘CONSIDERATIONS ON SOME RECENT SOCIAL THEORIES’ 405 NOTES ON THE RELIGIOUS TRADITION 415 MEMOIR OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Arthur Hugh Clough was born at Liverpool, January 1, 1819. He was the second son of James Butler Clough. His father belonged to an old Welsh family, who trace themselves back to Sir Richard Clough, known as agent at Antwerp to Sir Thomas Gresham. His mother’s name was Anne Perfect. She was the daughter of John Perfect, a banker at Pontefract in Yorkshire, of a respectable family long established in that place.