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This article is about the poem. For the novel by Richard Bowker, see. ' Dover Beach' is a by the English poet. It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems, but surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849. Vision e veneziana. The most likely date is 1851. The title, locale and subject of the poem's descriptive opening lines is the shore of the English ferry port of, in Kent, facing, in France, at the, the narrowest part (21 miles) of the, where Arnold honeymooned in 1851. Many of the beaches in this part of England are made up of small stones or pebbles rather than sand, and Arnold describes the sea ebbing over the stones as a “grating roar.”.
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Rosenblatt, Roger (14 January 1985). Retrieved 2 August 2007. A brief poem that eventually would be remembered by many more people than would remember the Great Exhibition, indeed would become the most anthologized poem in English. ^ Allott, 1965, p. Holt Literature and Language Arts, Sixth Course. Houston, Texas: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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Stefan Collini (1988) Arnold pp. 39–40, Oxford University Press,. Culler, 1966, p. 39; Honan, 1981, p.
234; Pratt, 2000, pp. Collini, 1988, p. Honan, 1981, p. Tinker and Lowry, 1965, pp.
Tinker and Lowery attempt to discover a specific reference to Sophocles, suggesting passages from Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus at Colonus, and Philoctetes. But they add that 'the Greek author has reference only to the successive blows of Fate which fall upon a particular family which has been devoted to destruction by the gods.
The plight described metaphorically by the English poet is conceived to have fallen upon the whole human race.' . Allott, 1965, p. Though Allott concludes that 'no passage in the plays of Sophocles is strictly applicable' to the passage in 'Dover Beach,' he feels that the passage from the Trachiniae ( The Women of Trachis) comes closest. Culler, 1966, p.
40. Pratt, 2000, p. Pratt goes on to equate this passage to ' ' – 'Blessed rage for order./The maker's rage to order words of the sea.' . Allott, 1965, p.
Compare to ll. 80–82 of his 'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse' which appears to have been written at about the same time. For probable date of composition of 'Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse', see Allott, 1965, p. The 'distant northern sea' is the which separates England from continental Europe and is the body of water that forms Dover beach.
Collini, 1988, p. Collini calls the 'Sea of Faith' 'a favoured Arnoldian metaphor.' . Culler, 1966, p. Culler describes this as a 'lovely, feminine, protective image of the Sea,' while Pratt sees not the beauty of the metaphor but its awkwardness and obscurity. (Pratt, 2000, p.
82). Honan, 1981, p. Honan sees the 'vast edges drear' as a possible memory of in the, which Honan describes as 'mountainous grey 'scree' running into translucent depths of water.' . ^ Collini, 1988, p. Pratt, 2000, p.
Honan, 1981, p. 'That lovers may be 'true / To one another' is a precarious notion: love in the modern city momentarily gives peace, but nothing else in a postmedieval society reflects or confirms the faithfulness of lovers. Devoid of love and light the world is a maze of confusion left by 'retreating' faith.' . Tinker and Lowry, 1965, p.
'Here are to be found the details used by Arnold: a night-attack, fought upon a plain at the top of a cliff, in the moonlight, so that the soldiers could not distinguish clearly between friend and foe, with the resulting flight of certain Athenian troops, and various 'alarms,' watchwords, and battle-cries shouted aloud to the increasing confusion of all.' . Culler, 1966, p. Pratt, 2000, p. 82 (emphasis in the original) She points to the final line's 'as on': this is the language of simile. Honan, 1981, p. Honan notes that had used the image once to define controversy as a sort of 'night battle'.
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He also notes that the image occurs in 's. Tinker and Lowry, 1965, p. Tinker and Lowry point out that 'there is evidence that the passage about the 'night-battle' was familiar coin among Rugbeians' at the time Arnold attended Rugby and studied there under his father Dr. Thomas Arnold whose keen interest in Thucydides had a distinct impact on his students. ^ Honan, 1981, p. Culler, 1966, p. 40; Pratt, 2000, pp.
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Culler, 1966, p. Pratt, 2000, pp. Pratt, 2000, p. Honan, 1981, p. Also see 'Dover Beach' discussed in the Influence section of this article.
Pratt, 2000, p. Collini, 1988, p. Tinker and Lowry, 1940, p. Allott, 1965, p. Allott, 1965, p.
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Tinker and Lowry, 1940, pp. 'Dover Bitch,' by Anthony Hecht, in Matthew Arnold, A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by David J.
DeLaura, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1973. 'Arnold the Poet: (ii) Narrative and Dramatic Poems' by Kenneth and Miriam Allott, in Matthew Arnold edited by Kenneth Allott from the Writers and Their Background series, 1976, Ohio University Press: Athens, Ohio, p. References For a more thorough bibliography see. Professors Chauncey Brewster Tinker and Howard Foster Lowry, The Poetry of Matthew Arnold: A Commentary (New York: Oxford University Press, 1940), Alibris ID. (editor), The Poems of Matthew Arnold (London and New York: Longman Norton, 1965),.
Park Honan, Matthew Arnold, a life (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981),. A. Dwight Culler, Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of Matthew Arnold (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966). Stefan Collini, Arnold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988),. Linda Ray Pratt, Matthew Arnold Revisited, (New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000),. The text of the poem is as in Poetry and Criticism of Matthew Arnold, edited by Dwight Culler, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961; and Matthew Arnold's Poems ed.
Kenneth Allott (pub. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1965). The editors of this page have opted for the elided spellings on several words ('blanch'd,' 'furl'd') consistent with these texts.
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