Matthew Arnold: Pessimist?
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This essay proposes both an empirical argument and a (speculative) conceptual one. The concerns the question: did original readers of Matthew Arnold’s poetry anticipate later...
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عنوان ژورنال: English Studies
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1744-4217', '0013-838X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2021.1928364