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Local Descriptiongreen hardcover; gilded logo on front cover with title on the spine; good condition DescriptionAn extensive collection of poems by Matthew Arnold, including sonnets, narrative poems, lyrical poems, elegiac poems, dramatic poems, and more. Author descriptionMatthew Arnold (born December 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, England—died April 15, 1888, Liverpool) was an English Victorian poet and literary and social critic, noted especially for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners of the “Barbarians” (the aristocracy), the “Philistines” (the commercial middle class), and the “Populace.” He became the apostle of “culture” in such works as Culture and Anarchy (1869). |