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Title: Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems

Author: Matthew Arnold

Release Date: September 3, 2004 [EBook #13364]

Language: English

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MATTHEW ARNOLD'S

SOHRAB AND RUSTUM

AND OTHER POEMS

EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

JUSTUS COLLINS CASTLEMAN

HEAD OF ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, SOUTH DIVISION
HIGH SCHOOL, MILWAUKEE

1905

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION
A Short Life of Arnold
Arnold the Poet
Arnold the Critic
Chronological List of Arnold's Works
Contemporary Authors
Bibliography

SELECTIONS FROM ARNOLD'S POETICAL WORKS

NARRATIVE POEMS

Sohrab and Rustum
Saint Brandan
The Forsaken Merman
Tristram and Iseult

LYRICAL POEMS

The Church of Brou
Requiescat
Consolation
A Dream
Lines written in Kensington Gardens
The Strayed Reveller
Morality
Dover Beach
Philomela
Human Life
Isolation--To Marguerite
Kaiser Dead
The Last Word
Palladium
Revolutions
Self-Dependence
A Summer Night
Geist's Grave
Epilogue--To Lessing's Laocooen

SONNETS

Quiet Work
Shakespeare
Youth's Agitations
Austerity of Poetry
Worldly Place
East London
West London

ELEGIAC POEMS

Memorial Verses
The Scholar-Gipsy
Thyrsis
Rugby Chapel

NOTES

INDEX

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INTRODUCTION

A SHORT LIFE OF ARNOLD

Matthew Arnold, poet and critic, was born in the village of Laleham,
Middlesex County, England, December 24, 1822. He was the son of Dr.
Thomas Arnold, best remembered as the great Head Master at Rugby and
in later years distinguished also as a historian of Rome, and of Mary
Penrose Arnold, a woman of remarkable character and intellect.

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