The Scholar Gypsy
By Matthew Arnold
Narrated by Denis Daly
Matthew Arnold, popularly considered the third great Victorian poet after Tennyson and Browning, spent his professional life as an inspector of schools, a respectable occupation which enabled him to lead a comfortable life and provide well for his family. An able scholar, and something of a bon vivant and racconteur, Arnold nevertheless preached the virtues of a simple life, close to nature and away from the noise and pretension of urban existence.
His Scholar Gypsy, first published in 1854, is the story of a reclusive soul, who flees the halls of academia to investigate the deeper learning of the gypsy lore. The authorial voice is that of the metropolitan investigator, who longs to run to earth his elusive quarry, but who also knows that, should he succeed in doing so, the power and mysterious attractiveness of the scholar gypsy will disappear.
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