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- Title
"Where ignorant armies clash by night" and the Sikh Rebellion: A Contemporary Source for Matthew Arnold's Night-Battle Imagery.
- Authors
Kokernot, Walter H.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the literary work of a poet Matthew Arnold. The probability that Arnold drew on the conflict with the Sikhs matches up nicely. Arnold, witnessing a new Sikh war breaking out just two years later, must have sensed a keen irony. However, no-one can say for certain how "Dover Beach" was composed, but even if Arnold somehow did not see the essay, even if he had not been thinking of the conflict in India when he wrote "Dover Beach," the connection to the Sikh wars would have been clear to many (if not most) of the readers of the poem--especially had it been published soon after it was composed.
- Subjects
INDIA; WAR poetry; ARNOLD, Matthew, 1822-1888; POETS; IRONY; SATIRE; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 1, p99
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vp.2005.0017