Matthew Arnold Quote

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.


Essays in Criticism: The Study of Poetry; John Keats; Wordsworth (ed. 1896)


Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good,...

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good,...

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good,...

Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good,...