Matthew Arnold - The pursuit of perfection, then, is the...

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Biography

Author Profession: Poet

Nationality: English

Born: December 24, 1822

Died: April 15, 1888

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Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Alexander Pope, John Keats, Robert Browning, John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Topics

Light, Perfection, Pursuit, Sweetness, Then

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