ABSTRACT
Personal relations between Arnold and Swinburne were friendly. Arnold was grateful for Swinburne’s praise in Essays and Studies. Arnold’s comments on his contemporaries testify to his lofty standards rather than to his critical acumen. Swinburne’s later comments on Arnold, unduly harsh, were partly prompted by Arnold’s, especially by his phrase ‘a sort of pseudo-Shelley’ and his depreciatory estimate of the real Shelley. Arnold’s Letters are quoted by permission of Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
