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Matthew Arnold

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Profession
Poet
Died
Apr 15, 1888
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
England
About
English poet who wrote the melancholy masterpiece, "Dover Beach," as well as "The Scholar-Gipsy" and "Thyrsis." He was also a writer of prose and literary, social, and religious criticism.
Family
He married Frances Lucy Wightman in June of 1851; together, the couple had six children. Matthew Arnold's father, Thomas Arnold, was the headmaster of Rugby School.

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