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Why did Matthew Arnold withdraw his first two volumes of poems from circulation?

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His first volume of poems, The Strayed Reveller, appeared in 1849; it was followed by Empedocles on Etna (1852). Dissatisfied with both works, he withdrew them from circulation.

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