The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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Page 420
... Lives of the Poets , the thought has struck me how admirable a point de repère , or fixed centre of the sort described above , these lives might be made to furnish for the student of English literature . If we could but take , I have ...
... Lives of the Poets , the thought has struck me how admirable a point de repère , or fixed centre of the sort described above , these lives might be made to furnish for the student of English literature . If we could but take , I have ...
Page 421
... Lives of the Poets there are six of pre - eminent interest , because they are the lives of men who , while the other names in the collection are of in- ferior rank , stand out as names of the first class in English literature : Milton ...
... Lives of the Poets there are six of pre - eminent interest , because they are the lives of men who , while the other names in the collection are of in- ferior rank , stand out as names of the first class in English literature : Milton ...
Page 422
... Lives of the Poets , in this mature and most characteristic work , not finished until 1781 , and ' which I wrote ... Lives of the Poets do indeed truly stand for what Boswell calls them , ' the work which of all Dr. Johnson's writings ...
... Lives of the Poets , in this mature and most characteristic work , not finished until 1781 , and ' which I wrote ... Lives of the Poets do indeed truly stand for what Boswell calls them , ' the work which of all Dr. Johnson's writings ...
Contents
THE INCOMPATIBLES I | 1 |
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
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