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Poet of the Month - Matthew Arnold   (1822 - 1888)
October, 2024
echo get_db_stat( Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essays, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) began his career as a poet, winning early recognition as a student at the Rugby School where his father, Thomas Arnold, had earned national acclaim as a strict and innovative headmaster. Arnold also studied at Balliol College, Oxford University. In 1844, after completing his undergraduate degree at Oxford, he returned to Rugby as a teacher of classics. After marrying in 1851, Arnold began work as a government school inspector, a grueling position which nonetheless afforded him the opportunity to travel throughout England and the Continent. Throughout his thirty-five years in th...
"Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur."
- Matthew Arnold
Previous Monthly Poets
Shel Silverstein - September, 2024

Langston Hughes - August, 2024

Pablo Neruda - July, 2024

E. E. Cummings - June, 2024

Edgar Allan Poe - May, 2024

Walt Whitman - April, 2024

Ogden Nash - March, 2024

Elizabeth Barrett Browning - February, 2024

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