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Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach. Matthew Arnold Dover Beach 1. Biography
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... cadence and darkling. From reading Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach", one realizes
that there is no certainty in life. When everything is ...
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Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach
1. Biography
First of all, we are start with the biography of the poet. Because most information is not really required to understand the poem, we are going to cut it short.
Matthew Arnold, born in 1822, went to the Rugby School when he was four years old. His father, who was headmaster of that school, died in 1842. Matthew changed school in 1844. He went to Balliol College in Oxford. As from the years he went to school, he was obsessed by poetry and making poems.
After his school career, he became private secretary to Lord Lansdowne.
His literary career began in 1849 with the publication of The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems.
In 1851, he married Frances Lucy Wightman, daughter of a judge. In order to support his family, he took up a job as school inspector. And in 1857 he became professor of poetry at Oxford, a position he will keep for ten years. During these years, he published several books containing literary criticism.
He also published many books of criticism and poetry during his career as an inspector and as a professor of poetry. When he was about sixty years old, he even toured in America.
In 1888, he died of a heart attack. He was buried at Laleham beside his three sons.
Necessary for the poem:
* Matthew went to Dover Beach, cfr. the title of the poem, twice. Dover is a town on the south coast of England. It is the place where you can take a ferry to Calais in France
The first time he went there was in June 1851. He and his wife spent the last night of their honeymoon in Dover
The second journey to Dover took place on the first of September 1851. He and his wife took a ferry from Dover to Calais (he also wrote a poem “Calais sands” !) and they travelled on to Paris. It is not clear whether the poem "Dover Beach" was written on 1 September, or...
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