biography
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| lived:
| (1822–88)
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| biography:
| Poet and critic, born in Laleham, Surrey, SE England, UK, the eldest son of Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby. He studied at Oxford, and became one of the lay inspectors of schools in 1851, an office from which he retired in 1886. He made his mark with Poems: A New Edition (1853–4), which contained ‘The Scholar Gipsy’ and ‘Sohrab and Rustum’, and confirmed his standing as a poet with New Poems (1867), which contained ‘Dover Beach’ and ‘Thyrsis’. Appointed professor of poetry at Oxford in 1857, he published several critical works, including Essays in Criticism (1865, 1888) and Culture and Anarchy (1869), and books on religious themes such as Literature and Dogma (1873) and Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877). |
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