Talk:The Scholar Gipsy

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In my set of Arnold (1896) this appears among Elegaic Poems: the elegaic tone is not mentioned in the present article. The fact that the 'contemporary' landscape is still the immemorial agricultural world of shepherds, wattled cotes, reapers in the corn, and no hint of the transformed landscape of the Industrial Revolution, even in the distracting worldliness that is what ages men. The leisurely pace of the poem, emplying nine strophes of possible haunts of the Scholar-Gipsy (is there not a hyphen?), is not addressed.--Wetman (talk) 01:44, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I am interested to note that there is no mention of, and apparently no attempt made to associate this poem with, any influences other than Glanvill. At the time of writing (1853), George Borrow's The Zincali had been in print and very popular since 1841, and Borrow himself seems like a model for the scholar gypsy type that would have been known to Arnold. GianniBGood (talk) 13:56, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]