Matthew Arnold (Matthew) was an English Victorian Era poet and critic. He was educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Mr. Arnold has a lucid style and is abreast of the thought of his age. He may be said in his own words to wander "between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born."
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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty's heightening... Go to Quote / Comment
"Fenced early in this cloistral round Of reverie, of shade, of prayer,... Go to Quote / Comment
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Go to Quote / Comment
...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Go to Quote / Comment
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. Go to Quote / Comment
I would like to say thanks for sponsoring this sight. It gives people such as myself a poetic voice that would have otherwise remained silent.
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