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MATHEW ARNOLD’S THE SCHOLAR GIPSY: A PASTORAL ELEGY

    1 Author(s):  DR. VANDANA V.

Vol -  10, Issue- 1 ,         Page(s) : 127 - 133  (2019 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/

Abstract

An elegy is lyric poem, that has a mournful melancholy tone. The pastoral elegy is poem about both death and idyllic rural life, this genre is subgroup of pastoral poetry. The Scholar-Gipsy was written by poet and essayist Matthew Arnold in 1853. The poem is based on a story, which was found in The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661), written by Joseph Glanvil. The theme of this poem is shepherds’ life, death, grief and concern over rural country side life. The shepherd and their life are main characteristic features of pastoral elegy. This paper focuses on, The Scholar Gipsy is a pastoral elegy.

1. All poem references from, Selected poems of Arnold, Browning and Tennyson, prescribed by The University of Toranto and Ontario, Dept. of edn for 1917-forgotten books
2. Mathew Arnold., Letters of Mathew Arnold 1866-1870, vol-3.
3. "Matthew Arnold, 'The Scholar Gipsy,' and the Cumnor Hills" – a topographical essay by Dick Sullivan
4. Michael Kennedy The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980) p. 472.
5.  Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough, November 1853, cited from Carl Dawson (ed.) Matthew Arnold: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge, 1995) vol. 2, p. 123.

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