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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold, detail of an oil painting by George Frederick Watts, 1880; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Matthew Arnold, the influential English poet and literary critic, died suddenly of heart failure in the spring of 1888. His death occurred in Liverpool, England, on April 15, 1888. He was subsequently buried in Laleham, the place of his birth.12