Matthew Arnold "Growing Old" Poem Movie Animation

Here is a virtual movie of Matthew Arnold who was the son of Thomas Arnold the celebrated strict and innovative headmaster at the Rugby School....He studied classics at Oxford university and after graduation went on to teach the subject, later as a schools inspector he traveled widely throughout England and the continent....He is best remembered for his critical essays and became professor of poetry at Oxford in in 1857. He was the first professor there to lecture in English rather than Latin ..surely this elegant poem asks us to contemplate the true effects of the inevitable ageing process regrets and all...Heres the link to the page with the sound file.

Regards.

Jim Clark
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