“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.”

—  Matthew Arnold

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

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

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