Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis James Child, and Mid-Victorian Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Phelan, Joseph.

Title
Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis James Child, and Mid-Victorian Chaucer.

Published
SEL: Studies in English Literature 59 (2019): 855-72.

Description
Explains how written correspondence between Arthur Hugh Clough and Francis James Child--recurrently concerned with metrical and linguistic issues--reveals influence of Clough on Child's "Observations on the Language of Chaucer"(1862); Clough's comments on Child's proposed but never completed edition of Chaucer; and Clough's Chaucer-inspired series of poems, "Mari Magno."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Style and Versification
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations