Matthew Arnold || Melancholic & Elegiac Poet in the Victorian Period | Biography, Books, Writings & Quotes | Learning The Easy way

 

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was an Melancholic English poet. He was also a critic and essayist.  He was born in 1822. His father's name was Thomas Arnold. He was also called the Elegiac Poet. He worked for five years as a Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. He died in 1888 at the age of 65 in  England.

Famous Books of Matthew Arnold:

1. The Study Of Poetry.
2. Literature and Dogma.
3. Culture and Anarchy
4. Essays in Criticism.

Famous Poems:

• Dover Beach.
• The Scholar Gypsy
• Sohrab and Rustom
• Cromwell

Famous Elegies:

• Thyrsis
• Rugby Chapel
• Heine's Grave

Famous quotes of Matthew Arnold:

1. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
 

2. Poetry is the criticism of life.

3. The sea of Faith

    was once, too, at the full.