Abstract
Clough's poetry poses editorial problems that, if not special in kind, are certainly special in degree. The problems arise from Clough's way of writing and rewriting, so that one “poem” could in different stages be rewritten with widely divergent poetic intentions. The description that his own Mephistophelean Spirit gives inDipsychuscould stand for much of his experience in composition, and it well describes many of his manuscripts:don't be sure — Emotions are so slippery … write verse, Burnt in disgust, then ill-restored, and left Half-made, in pencil scrawl, illegible.
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