This probably won't be of interest to most of my regular readers here, but for the sake of convenience of a small collect of people, you can read below the difficult-to-locate text of Matthew Arnold's famous essay on Wordsworth. For the life of me, I can't seem to find a decent and complete edition of it online, despite the text being long out of copyright. So, here we are, delivering over nine scans, with each page opening up in a separate window. May it be of use. Cheers.
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(Actually, it occurs to me, glancing slightly askant at the portrait of WW, that the old bugger looks rather resembles Jonathan Pryce. Now we know who to send to the Lake District should anyone decide to do a movie of his life. But what's with the pauncy look on WW's face? I think I'll be having nightmares about those eyebrows for a week.)
ADDENDUM: For those interested, here too are the pages from MA's Preface to his Poems of 1853. If you are one of RK's students seeing this, as of this posting (January 18), you're not required to read these. You're welcome to, but you surely don't have to.
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