James Russell L e ash, we first written while Clough was alive
(he died in 1861), may prove of interest. They are quoted from My Study Windows in the "Camelot Classics" (Walter Scott, 1886) ,- "Clough, Clough, whose poetry will one of these days, perhaps, be found to have been the best utterance in verso of this generation." (p. 66.)
" We have a foreboding that Clough, imperfect as he was in many respects, and dying before ho had subdued his sensitive temperament to the sterner requirements of his art, will be thought a hundred years hence to have been the truest expression in verse of the moral and intellectual tendencies, the doubt and struggle towards settled convictions, of the period in which he lived.' (p. 192.) These quotations show that Lowell at least evidently held with you that some of Clongles poetry "will last as longas the
English language."—I am, Sir, d:c., B.
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