Originally published in 1969. Alan Roper studies the degree to
which Arnold achieved a unity of human significance and literal
landscape. If landscape poetry is to rise above the level of what
Roper calls "country contentments in verse," the poet cannot think
and describe alternately; his thinking and describing must be a
part of one another. That Matthew Arnold was aware of the
difficulty in achieving the necessary unity becomes clear in his
own criticism, which Roper examines along with a large and
representative number of Arnold's poems. Considering the latter
roughly in the order they were published-except for a fuller
analysis of Empedocles on Etna, "The Scholar-Gipsy," and
"Thyrsis"-Roper follows important changes in Arnold's view of the
function and nature of poetry as it emerged in the poems
themselves. Basic to the author's critical method is a distinction
between geographical sites and poetic landscapes. Focusing on the
ways that Arnold and, to a lesser extent, the Augustan and Romantic
poets before him untied thought and description, Roper adds a
critical dimension to Arnold scholarship. Concerned not with the
development of Arnold's ideas nor with their sources in classical
antiquity and the Romantic period, he considers Arnold a
self-conscious poet who, though sometimes successful, became
increasingly unsuccessful in his efforts to imbue a landscape with
meaning for individual or social man.
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