Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold

Author: Carl Dawson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-12

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1134781032

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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold

Author: Laurence W. Mazzeno

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781571132789

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Examines the critical reputation of one of the great literary critics. From the publication of The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems in 1849, Matthew Arnold has been a figure of controversy who sparked decidedly strong and divergent opinions -- both about the quality of his artistry and about the ideas he espoused. Not surprisingly, a chronological reading of books and articles focusing on Arnold's writings reveals a century-long civil war among literary scholars. Focusing on studies judged to be most influential in shaping critical opinion of Arnold's poetry and prose, Matthew Arnold: The Critical Legacy explores the interplay between individual critics and Arnold's works, and between one critic and another as they respond to Arnold's writings and the critical commentary. There emerges an appreciation for the key questions that have captured the attention of Arnold's critics for over a hundred years: Was Arnold a first-rate poet, or does he rank below the greatest figures of his century, notably Tennyson and Browning?

A Life of Matthew Arnold
A Life of Matthew Arnold

Author: Nicholas Murray

Publisher: St Martins Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780312151690

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Years of research inform a definitive study of Victorian poet Matthew Arnold, the author of "Dover Beach," chronicling the life and work of the masterful writer, devoted family man, and impassioned critic of Victorian materialism.

Culture and Anarchy
Culture and Anarchy

Author: Matthew Arnold

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2019-06-28

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 3736811152

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Culture and Anarchy is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection". His often quoted phrase "[culture is] the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. The book contains most of the terms - culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others - which are more associated with Arnold's work influence.