• ‘Thyrsis’ is an elegy written by - Mathew Arnold. - এটি একধরনের pastoral elegy। - কবি তাঁর বন্ধু Arthur Hugh Clough এর মৃত্যুশোকে এই কবিতাটি রচনা করেছিলেন। - Arnold portrays Clough as Thyrsis, a traditional Greek name for a shepherd-poet. - It is considered one of Arnold’s finest poems.
• Mathew Arnold was a poet and a critic. Mostly known for his strong moral voice. - He was a professor of poetry at Oxford University..
• Best Works: - Culture and Anarchy - Dover Beach - Empedocles on Etna - Essays in Criticism - God and the Bible - On Translating Homer - On the Study of Celtic Literature - Sohrab and Rustum - The Forsaken Merman - The Scholar Gipsy - The Strayed Revellerand Other Poems - The Study of Poetry - Thyrsis