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The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with… — Matthew Arnold

The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

Matthew Arnold
1862
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Poetry
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1862
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Matthew Arnold
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Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words 1862." Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose. Penguin Classics, 2015.
Original citation
Arnold, Matthew. "On Translating Homer: Last Words." 1862, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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