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

...p. 194. No one certainly saw this more clearly than himself. In a letter of the year 1869 he says: " My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement...mind is, and interested in the literary productions that 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...

...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...intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning ; yet, perhaps, because I have more of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly applied...

...under date of 1869, quoted by Mr. Armstrong in his Faith and Doubt in the Century's Poets (p. 91): It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigor and abundance than Browning; yet, because I have perhaps more of a fusion of the two than cither...

...or even indifferent, by having to support ill-natured attacks himself." Of his own poems he says : " It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigor and abundance than Browning; yet because I have perhaps more of a fusion of the two than either...

...likely enough to have my turn, as they have had theirs." So wrote Matthew Arnold to his mother in 1869. "The main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century " — that is, from 1844, the year in which he took his " Final " at Oxford, to 1869, when he was in...

...truer judgment has been given on his poems than that by himself in a letter to his mother in 1869. " My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement...poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigor and abundance than Browning; yet because I have more of a fusion of the two than either of them,...

...he imagined he deserved. " My poems represent, on the whole," he frankly said in one of his letters, "the main movement of mind of the last quarter of...literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly i urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson, and less intellectual vigor and abundance...