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Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

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By Matthew Arnold
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The collection assembles lyric, narrative, and elegiac verse ranging from mythic and romantic retellings to intimate sonnets and reflective lyrics. It pairs longer dramatic narratives with brief meditations that repeatedly confront spiritual uncertainty, human loneliness, and the search for moral consolation amid social change. Recurring images of landscape, sea, and ruined monuments frame meditations on beauty, loss, faith, and poetic vocation, while a restrained, contemplative voice balances classical allusion with personal feeling and moral seriousness across varied forms and tones.

[36] NOTE 36, PAGE 493.

Stol'n from Aristophanes.

See The Birds of Aristophanes, 465-485.

[37] NOTE 37, PAGE 495.

Of Robin's reed.

"Come, join the melancholious croon
 O' Robin's reed."—Burns, Poor Mailie's Elegy.

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Transcriber's note

The following changes have been made to the text:

Page 289: The number 2 removed from in front of line that begins: "Too rare, too rare".

Page 510: The number 1 removed from in front of "Come, join the melancholious croon".