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Author: Arthur Hugh Clough, Julian Barnes. Title: Amours de Voyage. Format: Paperback. Release Year: 2009. Item Width: 10mm. Item Length: 134mm. Item Height: 198mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB.

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Amours de Voyage (1849) is a vel in verse and is arranged in five cantos, or chapters, as a sequence of letters. It is about a group of English travellers in Italy: Claude, and the Trevellyn family, are caught up in the 1849 political turmoil. The poem mixes the political ('Sweet it may be, and decorous, perhaps, for the country to die; but,/On the whole, we conclude the Romans won't do it, and I sha'n't') and the personal ('After all, do I kw that I really cared so about her?/Do whatever I will, I cant call up her image'). The political is important - hence the Persephone edition reproduces nine London Illustrated News drawings of the battlefront - but the personal dilemmas are the crucial ones. Claude, about to declare himself, retreats, then regrets his failure to speak. It is this retreat, his scruples and fastidiousness, that, like a conventional vel, is the core of Amours de Voyage. The poem thus contributed something important to the modern sensibility; it is a portrait of an anti-hero; it is about love and marriage (the difficulties of); and it is about Italy.Clough wrote to his mother: 'St Peter's disappoints me: the stone of which it is made is a poor plastery material; and indeed, Rome in general might be called a rubbishy place - The weather has t been very brilliant. ' As Julian Barnes points out in his new Persephone Preface: 'If you want a one-word introduction to the tone, sensibility and modernity of Arthur Hugh Clough, you have it in that single, italicised (by him, t me) word: rubbishy.' Clough was unimpressed by Rome and so is his hero, Claude, 'a very unGrand Tourist'. 'What his friend Arld perceived to be the weaknesses of Clough's poetry,' continues Julian Barnes, 'are precisely what over time have come to seem its strengths - a prosey colloquiality which at times verges on awkwardness, a preference for honesty and sarcasm over suavity and tact, a direct criticism of modern life, a naming of things as themselves. It is absolutely contemporary...It is also a highly contemplative and argumentative poem, about history, civilisation and the individual's duty to act.And it is, as the title tells us, a love story - or, this being Clough, a sort of modern, near-miss, almost-but-t-quite love story ( I am in love you say; I do t think so, exactlyA ) with mismatching, misunderstanding, tortuous self- searching, and a mad, hopeful, hopeless pursuit leading us to a kind of ending.'

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Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd
ISBN-10
190315572x
ISBN-13
9781903155721
eBay Product ID (ePID)
104903138

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Author
Arthur Hugh Clough, Julian Barnes
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Poetry Texts & Poetry Anthologies

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Place of Publication
London
Content Note
Illustrations
Date of Publication
23/04/2009
Imprint
Persephone Books Ltd
Country of Publication
United Kingdom

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