This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... such as Clough, Arnold, and Wordsworth. The element of melancholy, religious questioning, passionate love for and communion with nature seen in Matthew Arnold has given him a strong hold upon my later life. The more sober reflections that come with middle age, the interest in the great questions of the whence ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... such as Clough, Arnold, and Wordsworth. The element of melancholy, religious questioning, passionate love for and communion with nature seen in Matthew Arnold has given him a strong hold upon my later life. The more sober reflections that come with middle age, the interest in the great questions of the whence and whither and why of life, have lent to Arnold's poetry a charm quite different from that spoken of above. It is not in felicity of language or music of form, nor in romantic fancies or touches of love, but, rather, in the deep questions which men had to face in the middle of the nineteenth century, when science had destroyed forever the framework of the universe which lay behind the old theology, and showed the vast spaces of the new universe, inhabited by countless worlds, moving down the ages toward--what?--annihilation or perfection? This thought, which haunted Tennyson all his life, and which is fought out, in the In Memoriam, to a more or less confident faith, left Matthew Arnold without God and without hope in the world. There is nothing sadder in modern literature than the elegiac spirit of his poetry, a spirit which, nevertheless, makes up its chief charm; for they are really elegies lamenting not only the loss of a beloved friend, or the disappearance of love, but the passing away forever of faith in God, Christ, and the immortality of the soul.. Not perfection, but degeneracy, is the fate of mankind, as he shows in his Future, where we read that The tract which the river of Time Now flows through with us is the plain. Age is not the time of calm or hope, of peacefully awaiting the entrance to a larger life through the gate of death, but something from which the glory has departed never to return. The whole world itself, nature...
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