The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Hardcover)

1897. Complete edition with biographical introduction. Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essays, Arnold was a Victorian-era poet. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the legendary headmaster of Rugby School who was celebrated in the novel Tom Brown's Schooldays. Arnold's works are divided into the following groups: Early Poems; Narrative Poems; Sonnets; Lyric and Dramatic Poems; Elegiac Poems; Later Poems; and Additional Early Poems. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.