Description - Matthew Arnolds Church of Brou by G. A. Featherston
Matthew Arnold's poem, 'The Church of Brou', is no 'Kubla Khan'. Relatively unimportant as poetry and with a curiously muffled message, it has received little critical attention. Such questions as, why Arnold wrote it, what it meant to him, what impression he hoped to create by it have hardly been discussed. By detailed study of the poems content and the careful placement of it within the context of the other verse, this book identifies and explains its underlying symbolism, and establishes its very great importance in Arnold's inner progress. Featherston goes on to explain Arnold's use of symbolism, to chart this inner progress, and note his indebtedness to other authors.The portrait drawn of Arnold will surprise many, but the reader is left to marvel at this person, who disliked writing verse, but who nevertheless, produced works such as "The Scholar-Gipsy", "Philomena and Growing Old". As a text capable of fluctuation from under to post graduate readership, this book will be enjoyed by all who have an appreciation of Arnold's verse, and delighted in by aficionados.
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