Matthew Arnold

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The work is headed "Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury". The preface says that "Mr. Matthew Arnold , like other good men of our times, disliked the idea of being made the subject of a regular biography". One section of the text says "This ἀγώνισμα , like the other, Mr Arnold never included in any collection of his work; but it was printed at Oxford in the year of its success".

The text describes a poet who "begins by borrowing Wordsworth’s two voices of the mountain and the sea". The text mentions "The exquisite revulsion of the undertone in Bacchanalia" and "the melancholy meditation of A Summer Night and Dover Beach".

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George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury was an English literary critic, historian, editor, and university teacher whose scholarship covered both French and English writing. A History of Elizabethan Literature, first published by Macmillan in 1887, surveys poetry, drama, and prose from the early Tudor period through the seventeenth century.