Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - Romantic bent of nine-teenth-century English poetry could allow to exist and flourish. MATTHEW , liY U. F. H ATTS, (National Portrait Gallery, by jicmtissiou of Mr. F. Jlolli/er.) in our literature. It is a style which, as its judicious admirersadmit, has, in modern hands at any rate, its weakness as well asits strength; and in the hands of Mr. Arnold the former qualitywas now and then more co
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - Romantic bent of nine-teenth-century English poetry could allow to exist and flourish. MATTHEW , liY U. F. H ATTS, (National Portrait Gallery, by jicmtissiou of Mr. F. Jlolli/er.) in our literature. It is a style which, as its judicious admirersadmit, has, in modern hands at any rate, its weakness as well asits strength; and in the hands of Mr. Arnold the former qualitywas now and then more conspicuous than the latter. It betrayedhim sometimes into a stiffness with which another and o-reaterclassic, Jlilton, is himself on occasion justly chargeable, andsometimes into a frigidity of which Milton is much more rarelyguilty. But when, as in Thyrsis, the noble memorial poem tohis friend Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61)—himself a writer ofconsiderable but unequal poetic merit, to whom this brief refer- LITERATURE. 383 1865] ence must suffice—the youuger elegist is at his best, there is :in austere and melancholy beauty in his strain of lament which raises it very nearly to the level of the elfler poets Lycidas. The classic chill, however, is even more noticeable
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