Dover Beach and Other Poems

This outstanding collection of Matthew Arnold's poetry (1822–1888) provides abundant evidence of the poetic talents that made him renowned in his day and continue to place him among the most cherished and admired of Victorian poets. It also contains other great poems like The Scholar Gipsy Thyrsis The Forsaken Merman Memorial Verses and Rugby Chapel in addition to the titular poem.The calm poise and impersonal majesty of the standards were championed by Arnold as a literary critic but his own poems were frequently more romantic than the classics; they were private sentimental even nostalgic. However it is these appealing traits along with the lyrical inspiration and lofty meditative nature of his poems that continue to win Matthew Arnold the favour of poetry fans.