<P> The writer John Cowper Powys, an admirer, wrote that, "with the possible exception of Merope, Matthew Arnold's poetry is arresting from cover to cover--(he) is the great amateur of English poetry (he) always has the air of an ironic and urbane scholar chatting freely, perhaps a little indiscreetly, with his not very respectful pupils ." </P> <P> Partial list of works </P> <Ol> <Li> The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems </Li> <Li> Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems </Li> <Li> Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse </Li> <Li>' Sohrab and Rustum </Li> <Li> The Scholar - Gipsy </Li> <Li>' Memorial Verses to Wordsworth' </Li> <Li> Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann </Li> <Li> Rugby Chapel </Li> <Li> Thyrsis </Li> <Li> Essays in Criticism </Li> <Li> Culture and Anarchy </Li> <Li> Friendship's Garland </Li> </Ol> <Li> The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems </Li>

In it he expressed his belief that religion is important in the education of man