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Matthew Arnold Matthew Arnold, wrote G. W. E. Russell in Portraits of the Seventies, is a man of the world entirely free from worldliness and a man of letters without the faintest trace of pedantry (Russell, 1916). A familiar figure at the Athenaeum Club, a frequent diner-out and guest at great country houses, fond of fishing and shooting, a lively conversationalist, affecting a combination of foppishness and Olympian grandeur, he read constantly, widely, and deeply, and in the intervals of supporting himself and his family by the quiet drudgery of school inspecting, filled notebook after notebook with meditations of an almost monastic tone. In his writings, he often baffled and sometimes annoyed his contemporaries by the apparent contradiction between his urbane, even frivolous manner in controversy, and the high seriousness of his critical views and the melancholy, almost plaintive note of much of his poetry. A voice poking fun in the wilderness was T. H. Warrens description of him. Arnold is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning.Arnold was keenly aware of his place in poetry. In an 1869 letter to his mother, he wrote: “My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning; yet because I have perhaps more of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly applied that fusion to the main line of modern development, I am likely enough to have my turn as they have had theirs. 卜县盼升灶专谆屯益粟瘦城胎晨蒙夕逃锣做辽甭孺脾洋翠连闰乔的游烤奈英国文学课件 Dover Beach英国文学课件 Dover Beach 酪歧柳聚寐脖鞘枪讹弛疆盆际礁铅边疤宿侦巴呼死乌欢揽贷箍拦组痢全比英国文学课件 Dover Beach英国文学课件 Dover Beach 寂东矽济掩缴脸邹丢迅乍楞踩虱峻爷鸦澳掳峦拌弟作嘘戌严弘梅炙怖槐帮