Dover Beach The sea is calm tonight,

For a meditative day, one of my favourite poems #poetrysky #doverbeach poets.org/poem/dover-b...

Keir on Substack I haven’t read Ruth Pitman’s article (is there anywhere I can read it for free?). But far from being a “disintegrating sonnet”, Dover Beach expands into a huge enfolding double sonnet.  Stanza 1 is a...

Dover Beach as an expansive overengagement with form, rather than a retreat from it. #MatthewArnold #DoverBeach substack.com/@snapdragons...

“And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

#MatthewArnold #DoverBeach