“The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.”

— Matthew Arnold

The Study of Poetry
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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