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Updated: August 16, 2026

Still more he shows us this serious side in his beautiful poem on Jehuda ben Halevy, a poet belonging to "the great golden age of the Arabian, Old-Spanish, Jewish school of poets," a contemporary of the troubadours: "He, too, the hero whom we sing, Jehuda ben Halevy, too, had his lady-love; but she was of a special sort.

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold