The Poems Of Matthew Arnold: 1840-1867
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth/board binding in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed with age, consistent with an early 20th-century printing. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Appears intact and firm. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A landmark collection of Victorian verse, The Poems of Matthew Arnold: 1840–1867 gathers the finest work produced during the most creatively fertile years of one of England's most celebrated poet-critics. Arnold's poetry is marked by a profound melancholy and intellectual rigour, wrestling with themes of faith, nature, isolation, and the crisis of modernity — captured most memorably in works such as Dover Beach, The Scholar-Gipsy, and Thyrsis. This edition presents the complete verse of that defining period, accompanied by an authoritative introduction by Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, himself a distinguished man of letters, who illuminates Arnold's place within the broader tradition of English poetry. Elegant in expression yet searingly honest in feeling, Arnold's poems remain essential reading for anyone drawn to the intellectual and spiritual tensions of the nineteenth century.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Format: Hardback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth/board binding in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed with age, consistent with an early 20th-century printing. Markings: previous owner. Binding condition: Appears intact and firm. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A landmark collection of Victorian verse, The Poems of Matthew Arnold: 1840–1867 gathers the finest work produced during the most creatively fertile years of one of England's most celebrated poet-critics. Arnold's poetry is marked by a profound melancholy and intellectual rigour, wrestling with themes of faith, nature, isolation, and the crisis of modernity — captured most memorably in works such as Dover Beach, The Scholar-Gipsy, and Thyrsis. This edition presents the complete verse of that defining period, accompanied by an authoritative introduction by Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch, himself a distinguished man of letters, who illuminates Arnold's place within the broader tradition of English poetry. Elegant in expression yet searingly honest in feeling, Arnold's poems remain essential reading for anyone drawn to the intellectual and spiritual tensions of the nineteenth century.