Matthew Arnold:
(Laleham-on-Thames (Middlesex) 24 December 1822 – Liverpool 15 April 1888) was an English poet, literary critic, teacher and school inspector.
During the period from 1847-1851, he worked as a school inspector. In 1849, he published his first collection of poems. In 1851, he married Frances Lucy Wightman. They had six children, three of whom died young.
In 1857, he became professor of poetry at Oxford University, where he also studied.
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
