Mathew Arnold Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Poetry Classics) (ISBN 0747514917)

A bit of the best mankind has thought and said:
Mathew Arnold Hebraic and Hellenic at once, the representative of the central importance of a cultural tradition consisting in the best of what mankind has thought and said wrote a number of lines which echo in the Collective Memory of the Western Literary Tradition even today. The concluding lines of ' Dover Beach' 1867 are lines long loved by me and many other anthology readers. " Ah love, let us be true to one another!for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light , Nor certitude, nor peace , nor help from pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight Where ignorant armies clash by night.