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Friday, October 27, 2017

‘The rhymes are sometimes poor’

Seamus Perry on the poetry of Matthew Arnold at Times Literary Supplement.

"Was Arnold any good as a poet? Or rather, to anticipate an answer – which is that, yes, I think he was very good – what are we to make of the fact that so many of his readers, both contemporary and since, have thought he wasn’t up to much?"

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