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~SELECTIONS FROM MATTHEW ARNOLD~




I. THEORIES OF LITERATURE AND CRITICISM



POETRY AND THE CLASSICS[1]


In two small volumes of Poems, published anonymously, one in 1849, the
other in 1852, many of the Poems which compose the present volume have
already appeared. The rest are now published for the first time.

I have, in the present collection, omitted the poem[2] from which the