"Poems" by Matthew Arnold and ill. by Gilbert James - George Routledge, London - 1905 first thus UK edition - with 12 photogravures by James - 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, all plates present, in special soft blue leather sleeve in which the book is held Includes: The Scholar-Gipsy" (1853) is a poem by Matthew Arnold, based on a 17th-century Oxford story found in Joseph Glanvill's The Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661, etc.). It has often been called one of the best and most popular of Arnold's poems,[1] and is also familiar to music-lovers through Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral work An Oxford Elegy, which sets lines from this poem and from its companion-piece, "Thyrsis