Matthew Arnold was an English essayist and poet. An interest in the profession of education and values of the Victorian era, were seen in most of his works. Empedocles on Etna (1852), Poems (1853), critical works such as Essays in Criticism (1865) and Culture and Anarchy (1869) were some of his famous works.
Hsi later works were philosophical, spiritual and meditations on Christianity.
The Scholar-Gipsy
The Scholar-Gipsy was a poem published in 1853. It was based on a 17th-century Oxford story by Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing, which is about an impoverished Oxford student who leaves his studies to join a band of gypsies.
The speaker of "The Scholar-Gipsy" describes a beautiful rural setting in the pastures, with the town of Oxford lying in the distance. He watches the shepherd and reapers working amongst the field, and then tells the shepherd that he will remain out there until sundown, enjoying the scenery and studying the towers of Oxford. All the while, he will keep his book beside him. The themes explored here are of imagination, modernity vs mythical and change vs routine life.
Source - Academy of English poets site
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