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Which poem won Matthew Arnold the Newdigate Prize in 1843?
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Matthew Arnold, detail of an oil painting by George Frederick Watts, 1880; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In 1843, while attending the University of Oxford, the British critic and poet Matthew Arnold won the Newdigate Prize for his poem titled Cromwell.1