Matthew Arnold

1822–1888

England, 1822–1888. A Victorian poet and the age's foremost critic; his spare, elegiac verse — "Dover Beach" above all — gives voice to the doubt and longing of a world losing its old certainties. His work is in the public domain.
  • The Forsaken Merman (1849)
  • A Summer Night (1852)
  • Lines Written in Kensington Gardens (1852)
  • Morality (1852)
  • Requiescat (1852)
  • Self-Deception (1852)
  • Self-Dependence (1852)
  • The Buried Life (1852)
  • The Youth of Nature (1852)
  • Philomela (1853)
  • A Question (1867)
  • Austerity of Poetry (1867)
  • Calais Sands (1867)
  • Dover Beach (1867)
  • East London (1867)
  • Growing Old (1867)
  • Human Life (1867)
  • Immortality (1867)
  • Monica's Last Prayer (1867)
  • Palladium (1867)
  • The Good Shepherd with the Kid (1867)
  • The Last Word (1867)
  • The Second Best (1867)
  • The World's Triumphs (1867)
  • West London (1867)
  • Worldly Place (1867)
  • Youth and Calm (1867)
  • Youth's Agitations (1867)