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
Journalism is literature in a hurry Go to Quote / Comment
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. 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
'Fenced early in this cloistral round Of reverie, of shade, of prayer,... Go to Quote / Comment
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