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ARNOLD, Matthew. Poems. Second series.

London. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition.
8vo. v, [3], 210, vi, 24pp. With a terminal catalogue of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Lightly rubbed and marked, slight loss to head of dulled spine. Ticket of Westerton's Library of London to FEP, very occasional chipping to margins.
The first edition of some collected verse by English poet and critic Matthew Arnold's (1822-1888). Arnold's poetry, considered 'very good but highly derivative' (Bloom, 1987), draws on mythological narratives both Norse and Greco-Roman in this selection.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 32991