ABSTRACT
In the following extract from a lecture of late 1850 or early 1851, the poet Clough appears less than enthusiastic about Herbert or, for that matter, Donne. In his own poetry, however, Clough betrays the opposite attitude in that Herbert’s influence upon him may be said to have been restricted but not negligible (see above, p. 25).
Source: Clough, from the second of his lectures on Dryden and His Times, in Harvard University’s Houghton Library MS bMS Eng 1036 (8), fol. 7; as printed in Walter E. Houghton, ‘The Poetry of Clough: An Essay in Revolution’ (New Haven, Conn., 1963), p. 49.
