The Poetry of Arnold (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- First Published: 1849
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Religion, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Christianity, Victorian era or Victorianism, Protestantism or Protestant churches
Critical Evaluation:
Matthew Arnold has often been called “the forgotten Victorian,” and it is certainly true that his poetry is much less read than that of his two great contemporaries, Tennyson and Browning. Their vast productivity tends, as it did a century ago, to overshadow his rather modest accomplishment. For even if we include his two prize poems written at Rugby and at Oxford, we find that his total adult production amounts to only 129 poems, none of exceptional length by Victorian standards. “Empedocles on Etna,” one of his longest, is less than a thousand...
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