www.kalviexpress.in VIP-PG-TRB –ENGLISH COACHING CENTER 9600736379 kaviyatrbtetcoachingcenter@gmail.com 9600736379 Page 2 MODERN LITERATURE (1832 to the present day) Poetry-For Detailed Study: Dover Beach – Mathew Arnold Mathew Arnold poet and critic was born in 1822. He was the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, the great headmaster of rugby. He became fellow of Oriel college in 1845 and inspector of schools in 1851, a post which he retained for the greatest part of his life. His first volume of poetry, “The strayed Reveller and other poems” in 1849. Among other poems “The forsaken merman, the sick king in Bokhara”, the well – known sonnet on Shakespeare. Empedocles on Etna in 1852. Arnold was appointed to chair of poetry and he grew up under the influence of Wordsworth About the poem Dover Beach is one of a group of elegiac poems published in 1867 in the volume entitled New poems. Arnold‟s definition of poetry is “Criticism of life” in accordance wit