Today’s Poem: Dover Beach
How we make meaning in a meaningless world
Goethe diagnosed the sickness of modern times, according to Matthew Arnold. As “Physician of the iron age,” Goethe “struck his finger on the place, / And said: Thou ailest here, and here!” But Wordsworth, ah, Wordsworth, says Arnold: In an “iron time / Of doubts, disputes, distr…
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