Adaptation Of AH Clough Poetry

by Nicholas Romano
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9781849630160

At first escorted by loyal and ebullient companions but soon a solitary wanderer, Claude ventured to the Scottish Highlands; pursued, and walked out on, love and domestic ties in a bothie; witnessed a bloody insurrection and missed a romantic rendez-vous in Rome; was saved from a near death by an intriguing young woman, had a surfeit of Michelangelo in Florence; engaged in a battle of wits as a prologue to a damning deal with a highbrow stranger in Venice, gained the ‘love of his life’; sided with doomed insurgents, despaired and came full circle on meeting a son he did not know of...

Humour and tragedy live side by side.

The Oxbridge fellow’s dalliances with the fair sex, his melancholy thoughts and doubts, and his enlightening Grand Tour put him in his twilight years once more on the road leading to the bothie of old.

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Nicholas Romano

Holder of University of London BA degree in English Literature. Former college lecturer. Reader of verse and prose narrative, notably the Victorian, with a soft spot for literary theory. Author of short stories and critical pieces published by UK ‘little magazines’. Translator of an Italian book on the women of Africa commissioned by a London publisher. A rather mature rambler. In quest of his idylls, Claude travels with his loyal companion from the rough beauty of the Scottish Highlands to the chiselled splendour of Florence, the past grandeur of Rome and the light-and-shade romance of Venice. Often in doubt and full of inner conflict, he searches for a lifelong love. Haunted by bittersweet memories of domestic ties in Scottish bothie, he experiences a bloodstained insurrection, intrigue and a missed tryst in Rome but also self-realisation in an equally troubled Venice where he finds the love he has been yearning for...and loses his soul. Despair ensues and it’s only much later in life that hope reasserts itself. Is it too late for him?

A H Clough’s narrative poems such as The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, and Dipsychus provide inspiration. His lyrics and melody match the depth of thought and feelings into which the wandering Oxbridge fellow is drawn, all the way to fulfilling climax and a dramatic resolution.

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