'The siege of Troy." "What is a siege, and what is Troy?" Whereat He piled up chairs and tables for a town, Set me a-top for Priam, called our cat --Helen, enticed away from home (he said) By wicked Paris, who couched somewhere close Under the footstool, being cowardly, But whom-since she was worth the pains, poor puss― Towzer and Tray,-our dogs, the Atreidai,-sought By taking Troy to get possession of -Always when great Achilles ceased to sulk, However it got there, deprive who could Wring from the shrine my precious tenantry, Helen, Ulysses, Hector and his Spouse, Achilles and his Friend?-though Wolf -ah, Wolf! Why must he needs come doubting, spoil a dream? But then, "No dream's worth waking”—Browning says: And here's the reason why I tell thus much. I. now mature man, you anticipate, For letting me dream out my nonage thus, And only by such slow and sure degrees Permitting me to sift the grain from chaff, Get truth and falsehood known and named as such. Why did he ever let me dream at all, Not bid me taste the story in its strength? Suppose my childhood was scarce qualified To rightly understand mythology, Silence at least was in his power to keep: I might have-somehow-correspondingly Well, who knows by what method, gained my gains, Been taught, by forthrights not meanderings, My aim should be to loathe, like Peleus' son, A lie as Hell's Gate, love my wedded wife, Like Hector, and so on with all the rest. Could not I have excogitated this Without believing such men really were? That is he might have put into my hand The Ethics"? In translation, if you please, Exact, no pretty lying that improves, To suit the modern taste: no more, no less The "Ethics: " 't is a treatise I find hard To read aright now that my hair is gray, And I can manage the original. At five years old-how ill had fared its leaves ! Now, growing double o'er the Stagirite, At least I soil no page with bread and milk, Nor crumple, dogs-ear and deface--boys' way. 1889. CLOUGH LIST OF REFERENCES EDITIONS POEMS, with Memoir by Charles Eliot Norton, Ticknor & Fields, 1862.— POEMS AND PROSE REMAINS, with Memoir by Mrs. Clough, 2 volumes, London, 1869. POEMS, 1 volume, The Macmillan Company, 1888. SELECTIONS from the Poems, 1 volume, 1894 (Golden Treasury Series). - PROSE REMAINS, 1 volume, The Macmillan Company (1862), 1888. BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES Memoirs by C. E. Norton and by Mrs. Clough, in the editions above mentioned. SHAIRP (J. C.), Portraits of Friends. STEPHEN (Leslie), Clough; in the Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XI, 1887. CRITICISM ARNOLD (Matthew), On Translating Homer, § III; Last Words on Translating Homer, last two pages. *BAGEHOT (W.), Literary Studies, Vol. II, 1879. BIJVANCK (W. G. C.), Poezie en Leven in de 19de Eeuw: Studien op het Gebied der Letterkunde, Haarlem, 1889.-*BROOKE (S. A.), Four Victorian Poets, 1908. - DOWDEN (E.), Studies in Literature: Transcendental Movement in Literature, 1878. HUDSON (W. H.), Studies in Interpretation, 1893. - *HUTTON (R. H.), Literary Essays, 1871, 1888. MABIE (H. W.), My Study Fire, Second Series. OLIPHANT (Margaret), HUTTON (R. H.), Brief Literary Criticisms, 1906: The Unpopularity of Clough; Amiel and Clough.- Victorian Age in Literature.- PATMORE (C.), Principle in Art. - PERRY (T. S.), in Atlantic Monthly, 1875, p. 409.ROBERTSON (J. M.), New Essays towards a Critical Method, 1897.- *SIDGWICK (Henry), Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses, 1905. - STEDMAN (E. C.), Victorian Poets, p. 243-4. WADDINGTON (S.), Arthur Hugh Clough, a Monograph, 1883.- WARD (T. H.), English Poets, Vol. IV. ARMSTRONG (R. A.), Faith and Doubt. MACDONALD (G.), England's Antiphon. SCUDDER (V. D.), Life of the Spirit. SEEBURG (L.), Ueber A. H. Clough. - SHARP (Amy), Victorian Poets. SWANWICK (A.), Poets the Interpreters of their Age. TRIBUTES IN VERSE * * ARNOLD, The Scholar Gipsy; Thyrsis. - LOWELL, Agassiz: Section III. |