
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
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The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold is a comprehensive collection of the poems written by the renowned Victorian poet and critic, Matthew Arnold. This book includes all of Arnold's published poems, as well as several previously unpublished pieces. The poems in this collection reflect Arnold's preoccupation with themes such as the transience of life, the struggle between faith and reason, and the role of art in society. Arnold's poetry is characterized by its clarity, elegance, and depth of feeling, and this collection showcases the full range of his poetic talent. The book also includes an in...
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- POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW ARNOLD
- CONTENTS
- EARLY POEMS
- NARRATIVE POEMS
- SONNETS
- LYRIC POEMS
- ELEGIAC POEMS
- DRAMATIC POEMS
- LATER POEMS
- EARLY POEMS
- SONNETS
- QUIET WORK
- TO A FRIEND
- SHAKESPEARE
- WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS
- WRITTEN IN BUTLER'S SERMONS
- TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
- ON HEARING HIM MISPRAISED
- IN HARMONY WITH NATURE
- TO A PREACHER
- TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
- ON SEEING, IN THE COUNTRY, HIS PICTURE OF "THE BOTTLE"
- TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND, 1848
- CONTINUED
- RELIGIOUS ISOLATION
- TO THE SAME FRIEND
- MYCERINUS[2]
- THE CHURCH OF BROU
- I The Castle
- II The Church
- III The Tomb
- A MODERN SAPPHO
- REQUIESCAT
- YOUTH AND CALM
- A MEMORY-PICTURE
- A DREAM
- THE NEW SIRENS
- THE VOICE
- YOUTH'S AGITATIONS
- THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS
- STAGIRIUS[3]
- HUMAN LIFE
- TO A GIPSY CHILD BY THE SEA-SHORE
- DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN
- A QUESTION
- TO FAUSTA
- IN UTRUMQUE PARATUS
- THE WORLD AND THE QUIETIST
- TO CRITIAS
- HORATIAN ECHO[4]
- (TO AN AMBITIOUS FRIEND)
- THE SECOND BEST
- CONSOLATION
- FOOTNOTE:
- RESIGNATION
- TO FAUSTA
- NARRATIVE POEMS
- SOHRAB AND RUSTUM[6]
- AN EPISODE
- THE SICK KING IN BOKHARA
- BALDER DEAD[7]
- TRISTRAM AND ISEULT[8]
- SAINT BRANDAN
- THE NECKAN
- THE FORSAKEN MERMAN
- SONNETS
- AUSTERITY OF POETRY
- A PICTURE AT NEWSTEAD
- RACHEL
- WORLDLY PLACE
- EAST LONDON
- WEST LONDON
- EAST AND WEST
- THE BETTER PART
- THE DIVINITY
- IMMORTALITY
- THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID
- MONICA'S LAST PRAYER[12]
- LYRIC POEMS
- SWITZERLAND
- THE STRAYED REVELLER
- THE PORTICO OF CIRCE'S PALACE. EVENING
- FRAGMENT OF AN "ANTIGONE"
- FRAGMENT OF CHORUS OF A "DEJANEIRA"
- EARLY DEATH AND FAME
- PHILOMELA
- URANIA
- EUPHROSYNE
- CALAIS SANDS
- FADED LEAVES
- DESPONDENCY
- SELF-DECEPTION
- DOVER BEACH
- GROWING OLD
- THE PROGRESS OF POESY
- A VARIATION
- NEW ROME
- LINES WRITTEN FOR MISS STORY'S ALBUM
- PIS-ALLER
- THE LAST WORD
- THE LORD'S MESSENGERS
- A NAMELESS EPITAPH
- BACCHANALIA; OR, THE NEW AGE
- EPILOGUE TO LESSING'S LAOCOÖN
- PERSISTENCY OF POETRY
- A CAUTION TO POETS
- THE YOUTH OF NATURE
- THE YOUTH OF MAN
- PALLADIUM
- PROGRESS
- REVOLUTIONS
- SELF-DEPENDENCE
- MORALITY
- A SUMMER NIGHT
- THE BURIED LIFE
- LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS
- A WISH
- THE FUTURE
- ELEGIAC POEMS
- THE SCHOLAR-GIPSY[16]
- THYRSIS[17]
- A Monody, to commemorate the author's friend, Arthur Hugh Clough, who died at Florence, 1861.
- MEMORIAL VERSES
- APRIL, 1850
- STANZAS IN MEMORY OF EDWARD QUILLINAN
- STANZAS FROM CARNAC
- A SOUTHERN NIGHT
- HAWORTH CHURCHYARD
- APRIL, 1855
- EPILOGUE
- RUGBY CHAPEL
- November 1857
- HEINE'S GRAVE
- STANZAS FROM THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE
- STANZAS IN MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR OF "OBERMANN"[25]
- November, 1849
- OBERMANN ONCE MORE
- (COMPOSED MANY YEARS AFTER THE PRECEDING) Savez-vous quelque bien qui console du regret d'un monde?
- DRAMATIC POEMS
- MEROPE A TRAGEDY
- STORY OF THE DRAMA
- PERSONS OF THE DRAMA
- MEROPE
- EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA
- A DRAMATIC POEM
- ACT I. SCENE I.
- SCENE II
- ACT II
- LATER POEMS
- WESTMINSTER ABBEY
- July 25, 1881. (The Day of Burial, in the Abbey, of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster.)
- GEIST'S GRAVE
- FOOTNOTE:
- POOR MATTHIAS
- KAISER DEAD
- April 6, 1887.
- NOTES
- MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
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