ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Thyrsis” (from the title of Theocritus’s poem “") is a poem written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865 to commemorate his friend, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough, who had died in November 1861 aged only 42.

Detailed explanation-2: -What kind of a poem is Matthew Arnold’s “Thyrsis”? The answer has seemed self-evident ever since it was published in 1866: it is an elegy, more specifically a pastoral elegy, occasioned by the death of Arnold’s friend and fellow poet Arthur Hugh Clough five years earlier in Florence.

Detailed explanation-3: -Matthew Arnold wrote Thyrsis, a pastoral elegy in honour of his friend Arthur Hugh Clough, who died in 1861, in the year of his death. There are few elegies in English literature that compare to “Adonais” (Adonais, 1638) and “Lycidas” (1638) by John Milton (1821).

Detailed explanation-4: -Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author’s Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough.

Detailed explanation-5: -Written by Matthew Arnold in December 1865, Thyrsis is a personal elegy that mourns the death of Matthew’s friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Clough died in November 1861 at the age of 42.