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Born	December 24, 1822 • England
Died	April 15, 1888 (aged 65) • Liverpool • England
Notable Works	“Culture and Anarchy” • “Dover Beach” • “Empedocles on Etna” • “Essays in Criticism” • “God and the Bible” • “On Translating Homer” • “On the Study of Celtic Literature” • “Sohrab and Rustum” • “The Forsaken Merman” • “The Scholar Gipsy” • “The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems” • “The Study of Poetry” • “Thyrsis”
Notable Family Members	father Thomas Arnold
Subjects Of Study	English literature • literature • poetry • anarchism • culture

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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