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...this." Again, weighing himself in the balance with his two great contemporaries, he writes : — " It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning; yet, perhaps, because I have more of a fusion of the two than either...

...there is more of the same sort both before and after. The marked passage of all is the following : " My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement...mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less...

...WARREN. Guthrie, Kentucky. MATTHEW ARNOLD'S THEORY OF POETRY "My poems," said Matthew Arnold in 1869, "represent on the whole the main movement of mind...the last quarter of a century, and thus they will have their day as people become conscious of what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary...

...and cannot mar." In a letter to his mother dated June 5, 1869, Arnold says of his own poems: (They) "represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind...mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less...

...will be sold out in about a year. Macmillan tells me the booksellers are subscribing very well for it. My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement...mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less...

...will be sold out in about a year. Macmillan tells me the booksellers are subscribing very well for it. My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement...mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less...

...for it. My poems represent^onjhe^wholej the main movemen^f mj^nd prtlieTair^arter of a_cenjturjxand thus they will probably have their day as people become...mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less...

...England, that of the three poets Mr. Arnold is destined to rank the highest in the not remote future. " My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement...the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probahly have their day as people become conscions to themselves of what that movement of mind is,...

...in this." Again, weighing himself in the balance with his two great contemporaries, he writes:—" It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning ; yet, perhaps, because I have more of a fusion of the two than...