Clough, Amours de Voyage Dashboard
Description
This timeline, map, and gallery exhibit will accompany a critical edition of Arthur Hugh Clough's Amours de Voyage, to be completed as part of a graduate seminar at Purdue Univerity over winter 2021. We plan to use these resources to help explain the many geographical, cultural, and historical references in Clough's verse-novel.
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The Piazza di Spagna is a plaza in Rome, Italy. The Piazza di Spagna was designed by Francesco de Sanctis, an Italian architect. It is located in Campo Marzio in Rome. It is “composed of two lean triangles merging at their peaks” and connects the Spanish Steps to the Trinità dei Monti (Wolfrum 224). It has for a long time been known as a popular night spot.
Oxford is a city in south central England, located in Oxfordshire. It hosts Oxford University, which is the oldest university in England. Several notable literary alumni include W. H. Auden, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Hugh Clough, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Aldous Huxley, C. S. Lewis, Percy Sysshe Shelley, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Oscar Wilde. The city’s main industries are the steel and manufactured motor vehicles. As of 2001, its population was 132,248.
Cornwall is a city in England. It was once one of England’s most populated southern counties. The city’s main exports today are Mr. Lemon Hart’s rum, cream, art, and pottery, though the city used to host thriving tin mines (Cannon and Crowcroft).