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| Adventures In Poetry | ...2: Dover Beach, by MATTHEW ARNOLD ... |
| Alan Howard Reads | ...MATTHEW ARNOLD engages in animated internal debate with himself about his poem On Dover Beach and its place in history.... |
| Book Of The Month | ...An extended review of one of the month's most interesting new publications. In mid-life, MATTHEW ARNOLD abandoned poetry to concentrate on education and social reform and, as Auden was to say, `thrust his gift in prison till it died'. In his new biography, `A Gift Imprisoned: the Poetic Life of MATTHEW ARNOLD', Ian Hamilton explores the personal conflict behind this decision. Does it reflect a loss of creative confidence or a fiercer love of duty? In his review, Valentine Cunningham considers the widespread conflict of the public and private in Victorian poetry.... |
| Critic! | ...What is the role of the literary critic? Two current critics have new books on two giants from the past. Tom Paulin and Ian Hamilton discuss William Hazlitt and MATTHEW ARNOLD. With contributions from Christopher Ricks and Geoffrey Hill. `Critic!' is the final insult in a long slanging match at the heart of Samuel Beckett's `Waiting for Godot'. Artists have long been sceptical of critical judgement and hostile to the critical profession, yet the greatest critics have been artists themselves.... |
| Culture And Anarchy | ...First of three programmes in which Simon Heffer draws lessons for the present day from MATTHEW ARNOLD's Culture And Anarchy.... |
| Dover Beach | ...Music by Samuel Barber, including his evocative setting of MATTHEW ARNOLD's `Dover Beach', performed by Thomas Allen (baritone) and the Endellion Quartet.... |
| Great Essayists, The | ...MATTHEW ARNOLD was known not only for his poetry, but also for his essays discussing new ideas about culture and values, and the dwindling significance of religion in the age of Darwin.... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...With contributions from Barry Cunliffe and Adam Nicolson and poems by MATTHEW ARNOLD, Ezra Pound, John Masefield, Stevie Smith, Coleridge, Daljit Nagra, Sylvia Plath and Tennyson.... |
| Poetry Please | ...Roger McGough presents the poetry request show. This edition features poems old and new and includes verse by MATTHEW ARNOLD, Wendy Cope and Ogden Nash.... |