New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-08
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ARTHUR HUGH CLoOCH ~

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This announcement, lately brought ~ cur 'hore''
NAV, ~, .r,,i Ike attention OF gany. sut 60 TIE lie"
a, No. sb.l linper over il, /, viii ari0g burden OF
.,r,y, s,eh ~ can Only come when the gIav" c'ose1
uo.i5cly over gifted poet. faithfui riend' uuo
man. All Of these was lA whose unexpected oc''''
his stricken 50 deeply circle OF friends ami admirers
lo,h in Old aud New-gn Gland 10 warm ~ ever
,.,horsi around a man.
Mr.. Cloaob was algnys held by literary men III
Irprsud and in New ENGLAND aIso, where heverii
imror,au wears Of bis lie passed 10 be OF i'
h,si ,rnts Of ENGLISH educational insfiin.ion- Al
VAR, early see and soon after DIR. Arnold had taken
clur,e of R1e,y School, h. was received there, and
room proved himself born scholar He gained tie
only scholarship open for literary compentioh' ana
which WIG open 90 an in the school under fourteen
wears of age Before the age OF sixteen ne ''ooo AT
tie mead Of The third FORM which brought Linn nhoer
lie tuition OF Vaughan and Arthur Stanley, VINO
were much interested III the indicatons OF power
and character Which they discovered. AS YET nc
had not reached the highest form, which would orin5
him in contact with Dr. Arnold; but at lenglh ihe
golden day arrived and lie came into the presence Vi
that master with faitbfully-wcn coronet OF scho-
lastic brants on his brow. DR.. Arnold recognized
in the supplemented earnest youth not ohIy n pup"
but a friend; 10 tie richest veins oil tuat opu'eh'
mind young Arthur was always welcomed ana wheh
his last day came, and DIR. Arnold addressed me pu
pills he congratulated this one that lie bad won every
prize. every honor the school could bestow =" ana
every heart lie added with slighty-quiyerlng
voice.
Mr.. Clough then gained scholarship 81 Balliol
College. Oxford, and filed the place with dignity
and fidelity. II was noted by all who knew him that
this mind had rare gift Of eezing every opportunity
A,he Ccylonese Jogoe sta under the sacred cypress
ever on tie watch for the rarely failing leaf which
shall renew his youth so, under the tree Of knowL
edge Eat the young poet, and no falling leaf ever
found him nodding leaf ai'er leaf Of boyhoods
knowledge Of childbo ID heart, of youths ygor and
hope was caught and not one lost Of the swift hours
and the rrevocable seasons
He came to Oxford at the very hight Of the Pusey-
tie struggles. His duties were chiefly lectures upon
logic and ethics and pupils OF both ecclesiastic wings
watched eagerly TO discover the bearings Of this new
Fellow but they invariably forgot their polemics
in tie clear bracng realm Of thought into which lie
bore them. All sides loved him, while all were
raininlly anxious as to the processes Of thought
,yas raised TO it's highest PITCH when 1t became
runored that the gifted Oxonian had something IN
press. Wac II pro or anii-tractariaht Was II Oh the
RuLic Wa Il r.iionalisticl No two ever yet
but rpeculations were exchanged. Al last the work
came And nothing could exceed the astonishment
OF kobc and Newman, and Froude and Arnold, and
S'anley all ,ide,, all grades pupils and masers-
when before them was laid fine free foiicsome
poem, with nothing more TO do with the Oxford
polemics lhap the morning-glories had 10 do
with tie go,hic-owers Oh which they climbed;
for even 20 did the Boike Of Toper ma Faos.ch,
a one.racgfioa p0storai-singlg Of Highland
;;ss.le.. and ,reamlets, and student-walks and
talks-festoon ito tbeologc siriles, and Link
together lonely separate towers Of cold opinion.
The poem was 10, alone astonishing from ~
character. Scholars everywhere were attracted
by work which seemed TO he The work Of IA mind
ai whO.e altar the fierce power Of Robert browning
had welded tie tender, artistic niue of Icnnysrn.
Certainly, few works ever written promised 80
much The promise Was in one seuse kept, il
another not kept. Mr.. Cloughs mind intensely
r.Ai: be world not acknowledge any literary pro-
ducton as she real fruit Of life, unless its quality
were the mind own bloody sweet. IL is probable
that many very rare gems Of poetry and literature
remain among his papers; and II is 10 be hoped ttsi
Ibis only possible consolation for the loss Of
ouisi,e "A poet may not he withheld from us Beside
tie beautiful Poem a eady spoken of. and which, by
the WAY, perhaps the most successful instance OF
Modern IIexametors in our language, charming
little volume, entitled AWb0rraio, published III
Isll-the title originating IN the fact that it
i>iui publication with bis friend Thomas Dirbridge.
This ln.t liiie volume, which, for some cause or
othcr, Nds snpprcf-ed not long after tue small
edition had appeared has ia il some superior
10 an, hing ~ yet written by any living English
poet. We are aware y. the extent Of ls claim, but
are ,ure OF the yerd'o, from any adequate Literary
Jury.
let not be understood from what has been said
nf he expect edness Vi Mr. Cionghs hrt appear
auce IA an author that the remarkable religious aud
lheolo-ic epoch through which the English Church
and the Enlli-h mind passing glided over him,
on had no r,at.on To lis mind. On the CONTRARY, hi.
mind Piled tie problems Oi the period as hs hand tie
ta.ks Of life. BY his temperament and invest alton
he WA. borne not To the hi IL Church the Low
Chnrci tide but 20 the realm of Liberal Though,
where Newman and Kettle loh light of him cntrc,
and bic dearest friends, Arnold and STANLEY among
others, could only painfully strain their eve. One
poem iull If mingled pa'hos and cheerful hope, re-
l,,rr TO tie separations to VIII the di Of hs en-
ci.sions led.
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