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Article: The Letters of Matthew Arnold.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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The Letters of Matthew Arnold. Vol. 3. 1866-1870. Ed. by Cecil Y. Lang.
(Victorian Literature and Culture) Charlottesville and London:
University Press of Virginia. 1998. xxi+483 pp. $60.
Cecil Lang's third volume of his excellent edition of Arnold's letters covers the years 1866-70, his 'middle' period, and one particularly significant because it marked the transition from poet to critic. Indeed, Arnold is best remembered for the works published during this time. They include New Poems (1867), which saw the first appearance of 'Dover Beach' and, two years later, the Macmillan two-volume collected edition of his Poems which Arnold described to his mother as ...