Who wrote Dover Beach?

• A. Yeats
• B. Matthew Arnold
• C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• D. Carl Sandburg

Answer: (B)

Matthew Arnold, a Victorian-era poet and cultural critic, wrote Dover Beach. It was published in 1867 as part of his Poems collection. The poem pairs a calm seaside scene with a mounting sense of doubt about faith and civilization, reflecting Arnold’s concern with religion and culture in a modern, shifting world. The other writers mentioned belong to different periods and national traditions: Yeats is an Irish poet from the late 19th to 20th century, Coleridge is an early English Romantic, and Carl Sandburg is an American poet known for works about modern American life.