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New York DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS GENERAL EDITOR: STANLEY APPELBAUM EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: CANDACE WARD Copyright Copyright © 1994 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions. Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario. Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 3 The Lanches­ ters, 162-164 Fulham Palace Road, London W69ER. Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published by Dover Publications, Inc. in 1994, contains a new selection of 26 poems reprinted from a standard text. The Note and alphabetical lists of titles and first lines have been prepared specially for this volume. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Amold, Matthew, 1822-1888. Dover Beach and other poems I Matthew Arnold. p. em. - (Dover thrift editions) "This Dover edition ... contains a new selection of 26 poems reprinted from a standard text" - T.p. verso. Includes indexes. ISBN 0-486-28037-3 (pbk.) I. Title. II. Series. PR4022.D6 1994 82!'.8-dc20 93-23660 CIP Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 Note MATfHEW ARNOLD was born December 24,1822 at Laleham, on the Thames River. Son of Dr. Thomas Arnold, famous Head Master of Rugby School and educational reformer, Arnold became exposed at an early age to the combined influences of liberal studies and contempo­ rary society. As a boy, Arnold spent many of his school holidays at Fox How, near Grasmere, where Nature, as Wordsworth knew it earlier in the century, also exercised a profound influence on him. In 1841 Arnold began his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1851 he was ap­ pointed Inspector of Schools, a position he maintained for 35 years. Arnold's first two volumes of poetry appeared anonymously in 1849 (The Strayed Reveller, and other Poems, by A.) and 1852 (Empedocles on Etna, and other Poems, by A.). By 1853 Arnold was confident enough to publish his Poems under his full name. These initial volumes were. followed in 1855 by Poems, by Matthew Arnold, Second Series and New Poems in 1867. In the 20 years that followed, however, Arnold wrote very little verse, spending most of his energies on the literary and social criticism, religious and educational writings for which he is equally famous. Whether in prose or poetry, Arnold's work reveals his acute sense of man's position in his society. Particularly in the poems, that position is one of alienation and isolation, as seen, for example, in "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" and "Dover Beach." Writing in 1869, Arnold himself identified his verse as the representation of "the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century," as a product of the social and historical forces of the mid-Victorian Age. v Contents From The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, 1849 To a Friend 1 The Forsaken Merman 1 The Strayed Reveller 5 Shakespeare 13 Resignation 13 To a Republican Friend, 1848 20 From Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852 Memorial Verses 21 The Buried Life 23 Lines Written in Kensington Gardens 26 Indifference 27 Absence 28 A Summer Night 28 Morality, 31 Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann" 32 The Future 37 From Poems, A New Edition, 1853 The Scholar Gipsy 39 Sohrab and Rustum 46 Requiescat 68 From Poems, Second Series, 1855 Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse 69 To Marguerite 75 A Southern Night (1861) 76 vii viii Contents Thyrsis (1866) 80 From New Poems, 1867 Dover Beach 86 Immortality 87 Rugby Chapel 88 The Last Word 93 Alphabetical List of Titles 95 Alphabetical List of First Lines 97