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Amours De Voyage
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Amours de Voyage is a verse novel by Arthur Hugh Clough, written in epistolary hexameters and set in Rome during the Roman Republic of 1849. It suits readers interested in Victorian poetry, narrative verse, and works exploring love, hesitation, and political upheaval.
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough and father of Blanche Athena Clough, who both became principals of Newnham College, Cambridge. Clough's notable poetic works include The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich (1848), a long narrative poem, and "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth" (1855), a short poem of 16 lines.
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