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Arnold, Matthew Works of Matthew Arnold 1903

A Finely Bound Set of Matthew ArnoldARNOLD, Matthew. The Works of Matthew Arnold. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903-1904.Edition de Luxe. Limited to 775 copies. Fifteen octavo volumes. Engraved frontispiece portrait in Volume I. Bound by MacDonald of New York in three-quarter teal morocco gilt over marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers. An excellent set.Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), English poet and critic, was considered a quintessential Victorian writer in his philosophy, his taste, and his manner of expression (Merriam-Webster s Encyclopedia of Literature). His most famous poems are The Scholar-Gipsy, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, Thyrsis, an elegy written on the death of Arnold s friend Arthur Hugh Clough, which Swinburne adjudged, after Milton s Lycidas and Shelley s Adonais, the finest elegy in the English language; and Dover Beach, perhaps his best-known poem, which uses the image of the sea as a metaphor for the Sea of Faith, ebbing away from the naked shores of the world (Ben‚t s Reader s Encyclopedia).

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