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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" offers a more complex sensory experience that, in turn, creates deeper (and more serious) resonances of meaning: Dover Beach.
The proposed quarry site has for years been part of an almost disused railway sidings, but it lies near a footbridge and close to fields and pathways made famous in Matthew Arnold's poem 'The Scholar Gypsy' written in about 1854.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), best known for "Dover Beach," wrote several sonnets.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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When Matthew Arnold's speaker says "the sea is calm tonight" in the poem "Dover Beach," you create a calm sea in your imagination.
This description reminds me a little of Matthew Arnold's poem "The Scholar-Gypsy", which also takes place in the countryside around Oxford.
Wickers, over Wytham Hill to Eynsham, then back along by the river; we read bits from Matthew Arnold's Oxford poems, 'The Scholar Gypsy' and 'Thyrsis' along the way.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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It is part of the setting for Matthew Arnold's poem 'The Scholar Gypsy', and the digger and ballast mound are now visible from the Chilswell Pathway, altering the famous view of the Oxford skyline.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The supporting evidence for these generalizations seems to be Matthew Arnold's famous pronouncement in the nineteenth century and a misleadingly slanted summary of Abrams's exposition of expressive literary theory in The Mirror and the Lamp.
The arbiters of taste in the modern age were no longer the high minded Thomas Carlyles and Matthew Arnolds but the critically unaware Arnold Bennetts who wrote for the contemporary mass market.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Using Matthew Arnold's opposition of an emotional , fundamentalist (or Puritanical) Evangelical Protestantism to an elite Hellenic school, a series of scholar-critics, of whom Graham Hough and David DeLaura are the most important, have proposed the following kind of opposition:
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