Matthew Arnold , one of the 19th century's great lyric poets, felt himself deeply at odds with his "damned times". At 40, he effectively gave up poetry to pursue social educational reform and "purposeful prose". Tony Palmer talks to poet and biographer
Ian Hamilton , who, in his new study of Arnold, explores the struggle between two lives. He also considers the work of another artist-reformer -
Eric Gill - in the light of the publication of the first full survey of his sculpture.
Producer Julian May
