Sir – Roger Moreton wonders why Matthew Arnold wrote of ‘dreaming spires’ (Letters, May 2).
When Arnold wrote of ‘dreaming spires’ it was to rhyme with ‘copse and briers’. He could have said that ‘dozing domes, were dreaming over dusty tomes’.
P.J. Stewart, Boars Hill
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