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Arthur Hugh Clough

English poet

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1819–1861

Updated September 2026

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About 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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