FOOTNOTES:
1Head of St. John’s, and at that time Vice-chancellor.
2Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, at that time fellow and tutor of Balliol College.
3Meaning the day of Lawrence Sheriffe, which is the foundation day of the school.
4Near Conway, a house on the seashore belonging to an uncle.
5The Rugby bookseller.
6Clough at this time was with a reading party, which furnished him with many of the scenes and characters afterwards reproduced in his poem of theBothie.
7This was the scene of another reading party—‘Up on the side of Loch Ness, in the beautiful valley of Urquhart.’
‘Up on the side of Loch Ness, in the beautiful valley of Urquhart.’
‘Up on the side of Loch Ness, in the beautiful valley of Urquhart.’
‘Up on the side of Loch Ness, in the beautiful valley of Urquhart.’
‘Up on the side of Loch Ness, in the beautiful valley of Urquhart.’
8‘The inn by the Foyers Fall, whereOver the loch looks at you the summit of Mealfourvonie.’The Bothie, Part iii.
‘The inn by the Foyers Fall, whereOver the loch looks at you the summit of Mealfourvonie.’The Bothie, Part iii.
‘The inn by the Foyers Fall, whereOver the loch looks at you the summit of Mealfourvonie.’The Bothie, Part iii.
‘The inn by the Foyers Fall, whereOver the loch looks at you the summit of Mealfourvonie.’
‘The inn by the Foyers Fall, where
Over the loch looks at you the summit of Mealfourvonie.’
The Bothie, Part iii.
The Bothie, Part iii.
9This volume appeared in 1849, under the name ofAmbarvalia.
10After resigning his Fellowship and Tutorship at Oriel, Clough had accepted the Headship of University Hall in London, and this letter was written in consequence of a request which had been made him by the authorities.
11The following letters from Rome were written during a tour he took in Italy before settling at University Hall. It was in the course of this tour that he wroteAmours de VoyageandEaster Day.
12Amours de Voyage, canto ii. letter v.
13Afterwards best known as Margaret Fuller Ossoli.
14Amours de Voyage.
15On Retrenchment at Oxford.
16Before going to America, in October 1852.
17Clough’sPlutarch.Life of Sylla, vol. iii. p. 157.
18From the Acrocorinth watched the dayLight the eastern and the western bay.—Mari Magno.
19With wonder in the spacious gloomStood of the Mycenæan tomb.—Mari Magno.
20Mari Magno: My Tale.
21Mari Magno: My Tale.
22The wordspoom, which Dryden uses as the verb of the substantivespume, occurs also in ‘Beaumont and Fletcher.’ Has Keats employed it? It seems hardly to deserve reimpatriation.
23In the MS. Mr. Clough has written the first five stanzas of the poem entitled ‘Through a Glass darkly’ (ii. 93), at the head of the fragment. Though there is no date to the MS., it may with safety be referred to the last period of his life.