Poems List
Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said!
Cruel, but composed and bland,
Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat.
Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection .
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world.
Eternal Passion!
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
For the creation of a master-work of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment.
For what wears out the life of mortal men? / ’Tis that from change to change their being rolls; / ’Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, / Exhaust the energy of strongest souls / And numb the elastic powers.
Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill.
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Arnold nasceu em Laleham, Surrey, em 1822. Ele estudou na Rugby School, onde seu pai era diretor, e no Balliol College, Oxford. Em 1843, ele ganhou o Newdigate Prize de poesia. Em 1847, ele se tornou secretário particular do Visconde de Lansdowne. Em 1851, casou-se com Frances Lucy Wightman. Ele foi nomeado professor de poesia em Oxford em 1857. Arnold publicou muitas obras, incluindo "The Strayed Reveller" (1849), "Empedocles on Etna" (1852) e "Sohrab and Rustum" (1853). Ele também escreveu ensaios críticos, como "Essays on Criticism" (1865) e "Culture and Anarchy" (1869). Arnold morreu em Liverpool em 1888, aos 65 anos.