Amours de voyage : a long poem of Clough (q.v.), based on a visit to Italy in 1849. It is written in elegiac couplets in hexameter & was published posthumously.
... ordinarily to combine force with harmony. Either he produces verse of a rough energy, like the general type of hexameter used by him in the Bothie , or, as in the pentameter experiments in the Amours de Voyage , the breath of life and power is wanting in a harmonious shell of sound. Yet once or twice he has surmounted every difficulty. Especially is there one verse with the right Homeric movement in ...
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