Dover Beach and Other Poems

<p>This superb selection of the poetry of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) offers rich evidence of the poetic gifts that made him famous in his day and that continue to rank him among the most loved and admired of Victorian poets. In addition to the title poem it includes such masterpieces as The Scholar Gipsy Thyrsis The Forsaken Merman Memorial Verses and Rugby Chapel.<br>Although as a literary critic Arnold championed the serene poise and impersonal grandeur of the classics his own poems were often more romantic than classical in nature -- intimate personal sentimental even nostalgic. Yet it is these engaging qualities together with his poems' lyrical inspiration and lofty meditative character that continue to endear Matthew Arnold to lovers of poetry.</p><p></p>