The Works of Matthew Arnold
1967
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Arnold expresses, in a personal manner, the characteristic pressure of cultivated consciousness, and as a result of several of the poems the reader is left with a haunting image of the poet painfully isolated from the materialistic values of the Victorian world.
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Author
Matthew Arnold
Author · 19 books
Matthew Arnold was an English poet, sage writer and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.
