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The Sea of Faith and the Battle by Night in Dover Beach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Buckner B. Trawick
Buckner B. Trawick*
Affiliation:
University of Alabama
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Comment and Criticism
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PMLA , Volume 65 , Issue 6 , December 1950 , pp. 1282 - 1283
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1950

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References

1 The Poetry of Matthew Arnold (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1940), pp. 175-178.

3 In later editions the spelling of the place-name was changed to “Tober-na-Vuolich.”

' Page 51. It will be noticed that Clough's wording (especially “which is friend and which is foeman”) is much closer to that of Thucydides than is the wording of Dover Beach; and it is noteworthy, too, that Clough makes his combatants “Ionian and Dorian.”

4 For 1850 as the date of composition of Dover Beach, see Tinker and Lowry's article in the TLS, Oct. 10, 1935. The early date makes Arnold's indebtedness to The Bothie even more likely.

5 See Arnold's Letters 22 and 23 in H. F. Lowry ed. The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1932), pp. 90-95.