Synopses & Reviews
This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day, and that continue to rank him among the most loved and admired of Victorian poets. In addition to the title poem, it includes such masterpieces as "The Scholar Gipsy," "Thyrsis," "The Forsaken Merman," "Memorial Verses," and "Rugby Chapel."
Although as a literary critic, Arnold championed the serene poise and impersonal grandeur of the classics, his own poems were often more romantic than classical in nature — intimate, personal, sentimental, even nostalgic. Yet it is these engaging qualities, together with his poems' lyrical inspiration and lofty meditative character, that continue to endear Matthew Arnold to lovers of poetry.
Synopsis
In addition to the celebrated title poem, this volume contains a rich selection of Arnold's most famous verse: "The Scholar Gipsy," "Thyrsis," "The Forsaken Merman," "Memorial Verses," "Rugby Chapel," and many more.
Synopsis
In addition to the celebrated title poem, this volume contains a rich selection of Arnold's most famous verse: "The Scholar Gipsy," "Thyrsis," "The Forsaken Merman," "Memorial Verses," "Rugby Chapel" and many more.
Synopsis
A wonderful collection of intimate, personal, sentimental, and even nostalgic works by the greatly admired Victorian poet. Filled with lyric inspiration and lofty meditative characters, the selections include "The Scholar Gipsy," "Thyrsis," "The Forsaken Merman," "Memorial Verses," "Rugby Chapel," and the famous title poem.
Table of Contents
"From The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems"
To a Friend
The Forsaken Merman
The Strayed Reveller
Shakespeare
Resignation
To a Republican Friend
"From Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems"
Memorial verses
The Buried Life
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
Indifference
Absence
A Summer Night
Morality
"Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann"
The Future
"From Poems, A New Edition"
The Scholar Gipsy
Sohrab and Rustum
Requiescat
"From Poems, Second Series"
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
To Marguerite
A Southern Night (1861)
Thyrsis (1866)
From New Poems
Dover Beach
Immortality
Rugby Chapel
The Last Word
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines