Is Dover Beach a love poem? Dover Beach is a ‘honeymoon’ poem. Written in 1851, shortly after Matthew Arnold’s marriage to Frances Lucy Wightman, it evokes quite literally the “sweetness and light” which Arnold famously found in the classical world, in whose image he formed his ideals of English culture. What does Dover Beach say … Continue reading Is Dover Beach a love poem?
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