Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnoldwas 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 characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1822
high quick soon thou wilt
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? / Soon will the high midsummer pomps come on.
apollo leader leading tis
Tis Apollo comes leading / His choir, the Nine. / The leader is fairest, / But all are divine.
goes hills knows life sea thinks
And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes
born man river ship wanderer
A wanderer is man from his birth. / He was born in a ship / On the breast of the river of Time.
quiet spray
Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!
bring cannot cease cure doctor fame full ill nor phrase shake
Nor bring to see me cease to live,/ Some doctor full of phrase and fame,/ To shake his sapient head, and give/ The ill he cannot cure a name.
genius seems sphere
It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.
call
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill.
morality religion simply touched
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
english-poet perfection
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
enjoyed lived small
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
english-poet finds loses resolve
Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
english-poet finds loses resolve
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.
happy outside rage sound storms took troubled
He went; his piping took a troubled sound / Of storms that rage outside our happy ground.