Selected poems
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Selected poems
（Penguin classics）
Penguin, c1994
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Description
Matthew Arnold is not only a significant poet, but also a critic of the Victorian age. It is partly because a prose-writer's intelligence shapes his finest poetry that he is set "somewhat apart". Believing that poetry should be "a criticism of life", in his poetry Arnold often explores personal responses to the society he critizes in his prose. The characteristic notes, in major poems such as "Dover Beach" or "Thyrsis", are meditative and elegiac, informed by doubt and by the conflict between necessity and desire. For this edition, Timothy Peltason has selected poems written mostly by the time Arnold has reached his mid-thirties, but also including the three elegies for family pets that Arnold wrote near the end of his life. The volume also prints the full texts of the long poems, "Empedocles on Etna", "Sohrab and Rustum" and "Tristram and Iseult".
Table of Contents
- To a gipsy child by the sea-shore
- Mycerinus
- the Hayswater boat
- Shakespeare
- written in Butler's sermons
- written in Emerson's essays
- in harmony with nature
- in Utrumque Paratus
- fragment of chorus of a "Dejaneira"
- the strayed reveller
- resignation
- the forsaken Merman
- to a friend
- quiet work
- meeting
- isolation to Marguerite
- to Marguerite - continued
- stanzas in memory of the author of "Obermann"
- human life
- destiny
- Empedocles on Etna
- Tristram and Iseult
- youth and calm
- memorial verses
- too late
- Dover beach
- lines written in Kensington gardens
- a summer night
- the buried life
- a tomb among the mountains
- stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse
- Sohrab and Rustum
- the scholar-Gipsy
- a dream
- requiescat
- Philomela
- Rugby chapel
- stanzas from Carnac
- Heine's grave
- worldly place
- Palladium
- Thyrsis
- Obermann once more
- growing old
- the progress of Poesy
- the last word
- "Below the surface-stream, shallow and light"
- Geist's grave
- poor Matthias
- Kaiser dead.
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