Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) was a Victorian poet, critic, and educator. His poetry is known for its elegiac melancholy and meditations on faith, doubt, and the modern condition, as exemplified by "Dover Beach." Biographie ↓Plus ↓

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Hayeswater

A region desolate and wild. Black, chafing water: and afloat, And lonely as a truant child In a waste wood, a single boat: No mast, no sails are set thereon; It moves, but never moveth on: And welters like a human thing Amid the wild waves weltering. Behind, a buried vale doth sleep, Far down the torrent cleaves its way: In front the dumb rock rises steep, A fretted wall of blue and grey; Of shooting cliff and crumbled stone With many a wild weed overgrown: All else, black water: and afloat, One rood from shore, that single boat.

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Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) was an English poet and leading cultural critic of the Victorian era, who also worked for decades as a school inspector. His poetry often voices a deep sense of spiritual loss and the erosion of faith in a time of rapid change, captured in poems like "Dover Beach" and "The Scholar-Gipsy." Arnold's verse is characterized by a restrained, lyrical style and a pervasive elegiac tone, using natural imagery to explore the inner life. He served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford, where his lectures shaped literary criticism. As a critic, he championed the civilizing power of art and intellect, most famously in "Culture and Anarchy" and "Essays in Criticism." Arnold's work bridges Romantic sensibilities and modern existential unease, making him a central figure in the transition to modernist poetry.

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