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  • Essays Literary and Critical. [with an Introd. by G. K. Chesterton]
  • Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius
  • Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism
  • Milton's Comus, Lycidas, and Other Poems
  • Milton's Comus, Lycidas, and Other Poems, and Matthew Arnold's Address on Milton

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Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet 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 both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mat

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  • I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.
  • We cannot kindle when we will The fire that in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides; — But tasks, in hours of insight willed, Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.
  • Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city’s jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar.
  • Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
  • A God, a God their severance ruled!And bade betwixt their shores to beThe unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.
  • With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish’t were done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built do we discern.

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1988-10-16

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