Dover+Beach


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Dover is a seaport in southeast England that separates Great Britain from France and connecting the English Channel with the North Sea.
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[] This is a picture of Matthew Arnold. The poem was first published in 1867 in the collection //New Poems.// This poem was created after the place where Arnold honeymooned in 1851.

[] Matthew Arnold was born on December 24th, 1822, and was the son of the famous Dr. Arnold. At an early age he began to write and print verses. His first publication was a Rugby prize poem, //Alaric at Rome//, in 1840. In 1857 Arnold was elected professor of poetry at Oxford, and he held the chair for ten years. While he held the Oxford professorship he published several series of lectures, which gave him a high place as a scholar and critic. Arnold's poetic activity almost ceased after he left the chair of poetry at Oxford. He was several times sent by government to make inquiries into the state of education in France, Germany, Holland and other countries. His fame as a poet and a literary critic has somewhat overshadowed the fact that he was during thirty-five years of his life employed in the Education Department.