Matthew Arnold Review, 1909
"Arnold is a dandy Isaiah, a poet without passion, whose verse, written in surplice, is for freshmen and for gentle maidens who will be wooed to the arms of these future rectors."
George Meredith, Fortnightly Review
I am now having a hard time not imagining all those gentle maidens scrambling to drag their fingernails through those side-burn forests. I was so impressed with them, I added Arnold to my Pinterist page of Poets with Sexy Hair.
"Mr. Auden himself has presented the curious case of a poet who writes an original poetic language in the most robust English tradition but who seems to have been arrested in the mentality of an adolescent schoolboy."
Edmund Wilson, The Shores of Light
I know, that's what I like about him!
And what a face. Try to carve that in glass, Paul J. Nelson.
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