The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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Matthew Arnold. romance - writer will be a great poet . Above all are the French inclined to give this wide extension to the name poet , and the inclination is very characteristic of them . It betrays that very defect which we have ...
Matthew Arnold. romance - writer will be a great poet . Above all are the French inclined to give this wide extension to the name poet , and the inclination is very characteristic of them . It betrays that very defect which we have ...
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... poet . Molière , and here his French nature stood him in good stead , —was a theatre - poet of the very first order . Comedy , too , escapes , as has been already said , the test of entire seriousness ; it remains , by the law of its ...
... poet . Molière , and here his French nature stood him in good stead , —was a theatre - poet of the very first order . Comedy , too , escapes , as has been already said , the test of entire seriousness ; it remains , by the law of its ...
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... poet whose work has high and pure worth , simply by his knowing the Greeks thoroughly , more thoroughly than any English poet had known them since Milton . Milton was a survivor from the great age of poetry ; Dryden , Addison , Pope ...
... poet whose work has high and pure worth , simply by his knowing the Greeks thoroughly , more thoroughly than any English poet had known them since Milton . Milton was a survivor from the great age of poetry ; Dryden , Addison , Pope ...
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THE INCOMPATIBLES I | 1 |
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
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