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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold, detail of an oil painting by George Frederick Watts, 1880; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
"Dover Beach," the most celebrated work by the British critic and poet Matthew Arnold, was first published in his 1867 collection titled New Poems.12