Matthew Arnold

See also, Matthew Arnold School (Staines)

Matthew Arnold

Born	24 December 1822 (1822-12-24) Laleham-on-Thames, Middlesex, England
Died	15 April 1888 (1888-04-16) Liverpool, England
Occupation	Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools
Nationality	English
Period	Victorian
Genres	Poetry; Literary, Social and Religious Criticism
Notable work(s)	"Dover Beach", "The Scholar-Gipsy", "Thyrsis", Culture and Anarchy, Literature and Dogma

Influences William Wordsworth, John Keats, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, John Henry Newman, Goethe, Senancour

Influenced George Saintsbury, T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling, Mordecai Kaplan, Don Cupitt

Caricature from Punch, 1881: "Admit that Homer sometimes nods, That poets do write trash, Our Bard has written "Balder Dead," And also Balder-dash"

Family tree

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.¹

1 Early years
2 Marriage and a career
3 Literary career
4 Arnold's character
5 Poetry
6 Prose
7 Notes
8 Bibliography
9 External links

Early years

The Reverend John Keble, who would become one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, stood as godfather to Matthew. "Thomas Arnold admired Keble's 'hymns' in The Christian Year, only reversing himself with exasperation when this old friend became a Romeward-tending 'High Church' reactionary in the 1830s."² In 1828, Arnold's father was appointed Headmaster of Rugby School and his young family took up residence, that year, in the Headmaster's house. In 1831, Arnold was tutored by his uncle, the Reverend John Buckland, at Laleham, Middlesex. In 1834, the Arnolds occupied a holiday home, Fox How, in the Lake District. William Wordsworth was a neighbor and close friend. Fox How then became the family home after Dr. Arnold's untimely death in 1842.

In 1836, Arnold was sent to Winchester College, but in 1837 he returned to Rugby School where he was enrolled in the fifth form. He moved to the sixth form in 1838 and thus came under the direct tutelage of his father. He wrote verse for the manuscript Fox How Magazine produced by Matthew and his brother Tom for the family's enjoyment from 1838 to 1843. During his years as a Rugby student, he won school prizes for English essay writing, and Latin and English poetry. His prize poem, "Alaric at Rome," was printed at Rugby.

In 1841, he won an open scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. During his residence at Oxford, his friendship ripened with Arthur Hugh Clough, another graduate of Rugby who had been one of his father's favourites. Arnold attended John Henry Newman's sermons at St. Mary's, but did not join the Oxford Movement. His father died suddenly of heart disease in 1842. Arnold's poem "Cromwell" won the 1843 Newdigate prize. He graduated in the following year with a 2nd Class Honours degree in "Greats."

In 1845, after a short interlude of teaching at Rugby, he was elected Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. In 1847, he became Private Secretary to Lord Lansdowne, Lord President of the Council. In 1849, he published his first book of poetry, The Strayed Reveller. In 1850 Wordsworth died; Arnold published his "Memorial Verses" on the older poet in Fraser's Magazine.

Marriage and a career

Wishing to marry, but unable to support a family on the wages of a private secretary, Arnold sought the position of, and was appointed, in April 1851, one of Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. Two months later, he married Frances Lucy, daughter of Sir William Wightman, Justice of the Queen's Bench. The Arnolds had six children: Thomas (1852–1868); Trevenen William (1853–1872); Richard Penrose (1855–1908), an inspector of factories;³ Lucy Charlotte (1858–1934) who married Frederick W. Whitridge of New York, whom she had met during Arnold's American lecture tour; Eleanore Mary Caroline (1861–1936) married (1) Hon. Armine Wodehouse in 1889, (2) William Masefield, Baron Sandhurst, in 1909; Basil Francis (1866–1868).

Arnold often described his duties as a school inspector as "drudgery," although "at other times he acknowledged the benefit of regular work."⁴ The inspectorship required him, at least at first, to travel constantly and across much of England. "Initially, Arnold was responsible for inspecting Nonconformist schools across a broad swath of central England. He spent many dreary hours during the 1850s in railway waiting-rooms and small-town hotels, and longer hours still in listening to children reciting their lessons and parents reciting their grievances. But that also meant that he, among the first generation of the railway age, travelled across more of England than any man of letters had ever done. Although his duties were later confined to a smaller area, Arnold knew the society of provincial England better than most of the metropolitan authors and politicians of the day."⁵

Literary career

In 1852, Arnold published his second volume of poems, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. In 1853, he published Poems: A New Edition, a selection from the two earlier volumes famously excluding "Empedocles on Etna", but adding new poems, "Sohrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar Gipsy". In 1854, Poems: Second Series appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem, "Balder Dead".

Arnold was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857. He was the first to deliver his lectures in English rather than Latin. He was re-elected in 1862. On Translating Homer (1861) and the initial thoughts that Arnold would transform into Culture and Anarchy were among the fruits of the Oxford lectures. In 1859, he conducted the first of three trips to the continent at the behest of parliament to study European educational practices. He self-published The Popular Education of France (1861), the introduction to which was later published under the title "Democracy" (1879).⁶

In 1865, Arnold published Essays in Criticism: First Series. Essays in Criticism: Second Series would not appear until November 1888, shortly after his untimely death. In 1866, he published Thyrsis, his elegy to Clough who had died in 1861. Culture and Anarchy, Arnold's major work in social criticism (and one of the few pieces of his prose work currently in print) was published in 1869. Literature and Dogma, Arnold's major work in religious criticism appeared in 1873. In 1883 and 1884, Arnold toured the United States delivering lectures on education, democracy and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

In 1886, he retired from school inspection and made another trip to America. Arnold died suddenly in 1888 of heart failure, when running to meet a tram that would have taken him to the Liverpool Landing Stage to see his daughter, who was visiting from the United States where she had moved after marrying an American.

Arnold's character

Matthew Arnold "was indeed the most delightful of companions," wrote G. W. E. Russell in Portraits of the Seventies; "a man of the world entirely free from worldliness and a man of letters without the faintest trace of pedantry."⁷ A familiar figure at the Athenaeum Club, a frequent diner-out and guest at great country houses, fond of fishing and shooting, a lively conversationalist, affecting a combination of foppishness and Olympian grandeur, he read constantly, widely, and deeply, and in the intervals of supporting himself and his family by the quiet drudgery of school inspecting, filled notebook after notebook with meditations of an almost monastic tone. In his writings, he often baffled and sometimes annoyed his contemporaries by the apparent contradiction between his urbane, even frivolous manner in controversy, and the "high seriousness" of his critical views and the melancholy, almost plaintive note of much of his poetry. "A voice poking fun in the wilderness" was T. H. Warren's description of him.

Poetry

Arnold is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and Robert Browning.⁸ Arnold was keenly aware of his place in poetry. In an 1869 letter to his mother, he wrote:

“

My poems represent, on the whole, the main movement of mind of the last quarter of a century, and thus they will probably have their day as people become conscious to themselves of what that movement of mind is, and interested in the literary productions which reflect it. It might be fairly urged that I have less poetical sentiment than Tennyson and less intellectual vigour and abundance than Browning; yet because I have perhaps more of a fusion of the two than either of them, and have more regularly applied that fusion to the main line of modern development, I am likely enough to have my turn as they have had theirs."⁹

”

Stefan Collini regards this as "an exceptionally frank, but not unjust, self-assessment." "Arnold's poetry continues to have scholarly attention lavished upon it, in part because it seems to furnish such striking evidence for several central aspects of the intellectual history of the nineteenth century, especially the corrosion of 'Faith' by 'Doubt'. No poet, presumably, would wish to be summoned by later ages merely as an historical witness, but the sheer intellectual grasp of Arnold's verse renders it peculiarly liable to this treatment."¹⁰

Harold Bloom echoes Arnold's self reference in his introduction (as series editor) to the Modern Critical Views volume on Arnold: "Arnold got into his poetry what Tennyson and Browning scarcely needed (but absorbed anyway), the main march of mind of his time." Of his poetry, Bloom says, "Whatever his achievement as a critic of literature, society, or religion, his work as a poet may not merit the reputation it has continued to hold in the twentieth century. Arnold is, at his best, a very good but highly derivative poet.... As with Tennyson, Hopkins, and Rossetti, Arnold's dominant precursor was Keats, but this is an unhappy puzzle, since Arnold (unlike the others) professed not to admire Keats greatly, while writing his own elegiac poems in a diction, meter, imagistic procedure, that are embarrassingly close to Keats."¹¹

Sir Edmund Chambers noted, however, that "in a comparison between the best works of Matthew Arnold and that of his six greatest contemporaries... the proportion of work which endures is greater in the case of Matthew Arnold than in any one of them."¹² Chambers judged Arnold's poetic vision by "its simplicity, lucidity, and straightforwardness; its literalness...; the sparing use of aureate words, or of far-fetched words, which are all the more effective when they come; the avoidance of inversions, and the general directness of syntax, which gives full value to the delicacies of a varied rhythm, and makes it, of all verse that I know, the easiest to read aloud."¹³

He has a primary school named after him in Liverpool, where he died, and secondary schools named after him in Oxford and Staines.

His literary career — leaving out the two prize poems — had begun in 1849 with the publication of The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems by A., which attracted little notice — although it contained perhaps Arnold's most purely poetical poem "The Forsaken Merman" — and was soon withdrawn. Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (among them "Tristram and Iseult"), published in 1852, had a similar fate. In 1858 he brought out his tragedy of "Merope," calculated, he wrote to a friend, "rather to inaugurate my Professorship with dignity than to move deeply the present race of humans," and chiefly remarkable for some experiments in unusual — and unsuccessful — metres.

His 1867 poem "Dover Beach" depicted a nightmarish world from which the old religious verities have receded. It is sometimes held up as an early, if not the first, example of the modern sensibility. In a famous preface to a selection of the poems of William Wordsworth, Arnold identified himself, a little ironically, as a "Wordsworthian." The influence of Wordsworth, both in ideas and in diction, is unmistakable in Arnold's best poetry. Arnold's poem, "Dover Beach" appears in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and is also featured prominently in Saturday by Ian McEwan. It has also been quoted or alluded to in a variety of other contexts (see Dover Beach).

Some consider Arnold to be the bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. His use of symbolic landscapes was typical of the Romantic era, while his skeptical and pessimistic perspective was typical of the Modern era. The rationalistic tendency of certain of his writings gave offence to many readers, and the sufficiency of his equipment in scholarship for dealing with some of the subjects which he handled was called in question, but he undoubtedly exercised a stimulating influence on his time. His writings are characterised by the finest culture, high purpose, sincerity, and a style of great distinction, and much of his poetry has an exquisite and subtle beauty, though here also it has been doubted whether high culture and wide knowledge of poetry did not sometimes take the place of true poetic fire. Henry James wrote that Matthew Arnold's poetry will appeal to those who "like their pleasures rare" and who like to hear the poet "taking breath."

The mood of Arnold’s poetry tends to be of plaintive reflection, and he is restrained in expressing emotion. He felt that poetry should be the ‘criticism of life’ and express a philosophy. Arnold’s philosophy is that true happiness comes from within, and that people should seek within themselves for good, while being resigned in acceptance of outward things and avoiding the pointless turmoil of the world. However, he argues that we should not live in the belief that we shall one day inherit eternal bliss. If we are not happy on earth, we should moderate our desires rather than live in dreams of something that may never be attained. This philosophy is clearly expressed in such poems as "Dover Beach" and in these lines from "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse":

Wandering between two worlds, one dead

The other powerless to be born,

With nowhere yet to rest my head

Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

Arnold valued natural scenery for its peace and permanence in contrast with the ceaseless change of human things. His descriptions are often picturesque, and marked by striking similes. However, at the same time he liked subdued colours, mist and moonlight. He seems to prefer the ‘spent lights’ of the sea-depths in "The Forsaken Merman" to the village life preferred by the merman’s lost wife.

In his poetry he derived not only the subject matter of his narrative poems from various traditional or literary sources but even much of the romantic melancholy of his earlier poems from Senancour's "Obermann". His greatest defects as a poet stem from his lack of ear and his frequent failure to distinguish between poetry and prose.

The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold¹⁴

Prose

Assessing the importance of Arnold's prose work in 1988, Stefan Collini stated, "for reasons to do with our own cultural preoccupations as much as with the merits of his writing, the best of his prose has a claim on us today that cannot be matched by his poetry."¹⁵ "Certainly there may still be some readers who, vaguely recalling 'Dover Beach' or 'The Scholar Gipsy' from school anthologies, are surprised to find he 'also' wrote prose."¹⁶

George Watson follows George Saintsbury in dividing Arnold's career as a prose writer into three phases: 1) early literary criticism that begins with his preface to the 1853 edition of his poems and ends with the first series of Essays in Criticism (1865); 2) a prolonged middle period (overlapping the first and third phases) characterized by social, political and religious writing (roughly 1860-1875); 3) a return to literary criticism with the selecting and editing of collections of Wordsworth's and Byron's poetry and the second series of Essays in Criticism.¹⁷ Both Watson and Saintsbury declare their preference for Arnold's literary criticism over his social or religious criticism. More recent writers, such as Collini, have shown a greater interest in his social writing,¹⁸ while over the years a significant second tier of criticism has focused on Arnold's religious writing.¹⁹ His writing on education has not drawn a significant critical endeavor separable from the criticism of his social writings.²⁰

Selections from the Prose Work of Matthew Arnold²¹

Literary criticism

Arnold's work as a literary critic began with the 1853 "Preface to the Poems". In it, he attempted to explain his extreme act of self-censorship in excluding the dramatic poem "Empedocles on Etna". With its emphasis on the importance of subject in poetry, on "clearness of arrangement, rigor of development, simplicity of style" learned from the Greeks, and in the strong imprint of Goethe and Wordsworth, may be observed nearly all the essential elements in his critical theory. George Watson described the preface, written by the thirty-one year old Arnold, as "oddly stiff and graceless when we think of the elegance of his later prose."²²

Criticism began to take first place in Arnold's writing with his appointment in 1857 to the professorship of poetry at Oxford, which he held for two successive terms of five years. In 1861 his lectures On Translating Homer were published, to be followed in 1862 by Last Words on Translating Homer, both volumes admirable in style and full of striking judgments and suggestive remarks, but built on rather arbitrary assumptions and reaching no well-established conclusions. Especially characteristic, both of his defects and his qualities, are on the one hand, Arnold's unconvincing advocacy of English hexameters and his creation of a kind of literary absolute in the "grand style," and, on the other, his keen feeling of the need for a disinterested and intelligent criticism in England.

Although Arnold's poetry received only mixed reviews and attention during his lifetime, his forays into literary criticism were more successful. Arnold is famous for introducing a methodology of literary criticism somewhere between the historicist approach common to many critics at the time and the personal essay; he often moved quickly and easily from literary subjects to political and social issues. His Essays in Criticism (1865, 1888), remains a significant influence on critics to this day. In one of his most famous essays on the topic, “The Study of Poetry”, Arnold wrote that, “Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry”. He considered the most important criteria used to judge the value of a poem were “high truth” and “high seriousness”. By this standard, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales did not merit Arnold’s approval. Further, Arnold thought the works that had been proven to possess both “high truth” and “high seriousness”, such as those of Shakespeare and Milton, could be used as a basis of comparison to determine the merit of other works of poetry. He also sought for literary criticism to remain disinterested, and said that the appreciation should be of “the object as in itself it really is."

Social criticism

He was led on from literary criticism to a more general critique of the spirit of his age. Between 1867 and 1869 he wrote Culture and Anarchy, famous for the term he popularised for the middle class of the English Victorian era population: "Philistines", a word which derives its modern cultural meaning (in English - the German-language usage was well established) from him. Culture and Anarchy is also famous for its popularization of the phrase "sweetness and light," first coined by Jonathan Swift.²³

Arnold's "want of logic and thoroughness of thought" as noted by John M. Robertson in Modern Humanists was an aspect of the inconsistency of which Arnold was accused.²⁴ Few of his ideas were his own, and he failed to reconcile the conflicting influences which moved him so strongly. "There are four people, in especial," he once wrote to Cardinal Newman, "from whom I am conscious of having learnt — a very different thing from merely receiving a strong impression — learnt habits, methods, ruling ideas, which are constantly with me; and the four are — Goethe, Wordsworth, Sainte-Beuve, and yourself." Dr. Arnold must be added; the son's fundamental likeness to the father was early pointed out by Swinburne, and was later attested by Matthew Arnold's grandson, Mr. Arnold Whitridge. Brought up in the tenets of the Philistinism which, as a professed cosmopolitan and the Apostle of Culture he attacked, he remained something of a Philistine to the end.

Journalistic criticism

In 1887, Arnold was credited with coining the phrase "New Journalism", a term that went on to define an entire genre of newspaper history, particularly Lord Northcliffe's turn-of-the-century press empire. However, at the time, the target of Arnold's irritation was not Northcliffe, but the sensational journalism of Pall Mall Gazette editor, W.T. Stead.²⁵ Arnold had enjoyed a long and mutually beneficial association with the Pall Mall Gazette since its inception in 1865. As an occasional contributor, he had formed a particular friendship with its first editor, Frederick Greenwood and a close acquaintance with its second, John Morley. But he strongly disapproved of the muck-raking Stead, and declared that, under Stead, "the P.M.G., whatever may be its merits, is fast ceasing to be literature."²⁶

Religious criticism

His religious views were unusual for his time. Scholars of Arnold's works disagree on the nature of Arnold's personal religious beliefs. Under the influence of Baruch Spinoza and his father, Dr. Thomas Arnold, he rejected the superstitious elements in religion, even while retaining a fascination for church rituals. Arnold seems to belong to a pragmatic middle ground that is more concerned with the poetry of religion and its virtues and values for society than with the existence of God.

He wrote in the preface of God and the Bible in 1875 “The personages of the Christian heaven and their conversations are no more matter of fact than the personages of the Greek Olympus and their conversations.”²⁷ He also wrote in Literature and Dogma: "The word 'God' is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness — a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs."²⁸ He defined religion as "morality touched with emotion".²⁹

However, he also wrote in the same book, "to pass from a Christianity relying on its miracles to a Christianity relying on its natural truth is a great change. It can only be brought about by those whose attachment to Christianity is such, that they cannot part with it, and yet cannot but deal with it sincerely."³⁰

Blue plaque to Matthew Arnold, 2 Chester Square

Notes

^ Landow, George. Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986.
^ Honan, 1981, p. 5.
^ Composer Edward Elgar dedicated one of the Enigma Variations to Richard.
^ Collini, 1988, p. 21.
^ Collini, 1988, p. 21
^ Super, CPW, II, p. 330.
^ Russell, 1916.
^ Collini, 1988, p. 2.
^ Lang, Volume 3, p. 347.
^ Collini, 1988, p. 26.
^ Bloom, 1987, pp. 1-2.
^ Chambers, 1933, p. 159.
^ Chambers, 1933, p. 165.
^ Arnold, Matthew (1897). Nathan Dole. ed. The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold. T.Y. Crowell & Co.. http://books.google.com/books?id=c7EXAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Poetical+Works+of+Matthew+Arnold#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
^ Collini, 1988, p. vii.
^ Collini, 1988, p. 25.
^ Watson, 1962, pp. 150-160. Saintsbury, 1899, p. 78 passim.
^ Collini, 1988. Also see the introduction to Culture and Anarchy and other writings, Collini, 1993.
^ See "The Critical Reception of Arnold's Religious Writings" in Mazzeno, 1999.
^ Mazzeno, 1999.
^ Arnold, Matthew (1913). William S. Johnson. ed. Selections from the Prose Work of Matthew Arnold. Houghton Mifflin. http://books.google.com/books?id=820AAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Prose+of+Matthew+Arnold#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
^ Watson, 1962, p. 147.
^ The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Sweetness and light. Houghton Mifflin Company.
^ Robertson, John M. (1901). Modern Humanists. S. Sonnenschein. p. 145. http://books.google.com/books?id=eccMAQAAIAAJ&dq=Johnson++Modern+humanists&lr=. "If, then, a man come to the criticism of life as Arnold did, with neither a faculty nor a training for logic... it is impossible that he should escape frequent error or inconsistency..."
^ "We have had opportunities of observing a new journalism which a clever and energetic man has lately invented. It has much to recommend it; it is full of ability, novelty, variety, sensation, sympathy, generous instincts; its one great fault is that it is feather-brained." Mathew Arnold, The Nineteenth century No. CXXIII. (May, 1887) pp. 629-643. Available online at http://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/related/easter.php
^ Quoted in Harold Begbie, The Life of General William Booth, (2 vols., New York, 1920). Available [online]
^ Super, CPW, VII, p. 384.
^ Super, CPW, VI, p. 171.
^ Super, CPW, VI, p. 176.
^ Super, CPW, VI, p. 143.

Abbreviation: CPW stands for Robert H. Super (editor), The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, see Bibliography.

Bibliography

Primary sources:

George W. E. Russell (editor), Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1849-88, 2 vols. (London and New York: Macmillan, 1895)

Published seven years after their author's death these letters were heavily edited by Arnold's family.

Howard F. Lowry (editor), The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough (New York: Oxford University Press, 1932)
C. B. Tinker and H. F. Lowry (editors), The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Oxford University Press, 1950 standard edition, ISBN 1125158401
Kenneth Allott (editor), The Poems of Matthew Arnold (London and New York: Longman Norton, 1965) ISBN 0-393-04377-0

Part of the "Annotated English Poets Series," Allott includes 145 poems (with fragments and juvenilia) all fully annotated.

Robert H. Super (editor), The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold in eleven volumes (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1960-1977)
Miriam Allott and Robert H. Super (editors), The Oxford Authors: Matthew Arnold (Oxford: Oxford university Press, 1986)

A strong selection from Miriam Allot, who had (silently) assisted her husband in editing the Longman Norton annotated edition of Arnold's poems, and Robert H. Super, editor of the eleven volume complete prose.

Stefan Collini (editor), Culture and Anarchy and other writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) part of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series.

Collini's introduction to this edition attempts to show that "Culture and Anarchy, first published in 1869, has left a lasting impress upon subsequent debate about the relation between politics and culture" —Introduction, p. ix.

Cecil Y. Lang (editor), The Letters of Matthew Arnold in six volumes (Charlottesville and London: The University Press of Virginia, 1996-2001)

Biographies (by publication date):

George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899)

Saintsbury combines biography with critical appraisal. In his view, "Arnold's greatness lies in 'his general literary position' (p. 227). Neither the greatest poet nor the greatest critic, Arnold was able to achieve distinction in both areas, making his contributions to literature greater than those of virtually any other writer before him." Mazzeno, 1999, p. 8.

Herbert W. Paul, Mathew Arnold (London: Macmillan, 1902)
G. W. E. Russell, Matthew Arnold (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904)
Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold (New York: Norton, 1939)

Trilling called his study a "biography of a mind."

Park Honan, Matthew Arnold, a life (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1981) ISBN 0-07-029697-9

"Trilling's book challenged and delighted me but failed to take me close to Matthew Arnold's life. ... I decided in 1970 to write a definitive biography... Three-quarters of the biographical data in this book, I may say, has not appeared in a previous study of Arnold." —Preface, pp. viii-ix.

Stefan Collini, Arnold (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988)

A good starting point for those new to Arnold's prose. "Like many late century scholars, Collini believes Arnold's chief contribution to English literature is as a critic. ... Collini insists Arnold remains a force in literary criticism because 'he characterizes in unforgettable ways' the role that literary and cultural criticism 'can and must play in modern societies'" (p 67). Mazzeno, 1999, pp. 103-104.

Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (New York: St. Martin's, 1996)

"...focuses on the conflicts between Arnold's public and private lives. A poet himself, Murray believes Arnold was a superb poet who turned to criticism when he realized his gift for verse was fading." Mazzeno, 1999, p. 118.

Ian Hamilton, A Gift Imprisoned: A Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold (London: Bloomsbury, 1998)

"Choosing to concentrate on the development of Arnold's talents as a poet, Hamilton takes great pains to explore the biographical and literary sources of Arnold's verse." Mazzeno, 1999, p. 118.

Bibliography:

Thomas Burnett Smart, The Bibliography of Matthew Arnold 1892, (reprinted New York: Burt Franklin, 1968, Burt Franklin Bibliography and Reference Series #159)
Laurence W. Mazzeno, Matthew Arnold: The Critical Legacy (Woodbridge: Camden House, 1999)

Not a true bibliography, nonetheless, it provides thorough coverage and intelligent commentary for the critical writings on Arnold.

Writings on Matthew Arnold or containing significant discussion of Arnold (by publication date):

G. W. E. Russell, Portraits of the Seventies (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916)

Sir Edmund Chambers, "Matthew Arnold," Watson Lecture on English Poetry, 1932, in English Critical Essays: Twentieth century, Phyllis M. Jones (editor) (London: Oxford University Press, 1933)

T. S. Eliot, "Matthew Arnold" in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933)

This is Eliot's second essay on Matthew Arnold. The title of the series consciously echoes Arnold's essay, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (1864).

Professors Chauncey Brewster Tinker and Howard Foster Lowry, The Poetry of Matthew Arnold: A Commentary (New York: Oxford University Press, 1940) Alibris ID 8235403151
W. F. Connell, The Educational Thought and Influence of Matthew Arnold (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd, 1950)

Mazzeno describes this as the "definitive word" on Arnold's educational thought. Mazzeno, 1999, p. 42.

George Watson, "Matthew Arnold" in The Literary Critics: A Study of English Descriptive Criticism (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1962)
A. Dwight Culler, "Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of Matthew Arnold" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966).

Described by Stefan Collini as "the most comprehensive discussion" of the poetry in his "Arnold" Past Masters, p.121.

David J. DeLaura, "Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater" (Austin: University of Texas Pr, 1969).

This celebrated study brilliantly situates Arnold in the intellectual history of his time.

Northrop Frye, The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism (in "Daedalus", 99, 2, pp. 268-342, Spring 1970; then New York: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1983) ISBN 0-7108-0641-8
Joseph Carroll, The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981)
Ruth apRoberts, Arnold and God (Berkley: University of California Press, 1983)
Harold Bloom (editor), W. H. Auden, J. Hillis Miller, Geoffrey Tillotson, G. Wilson Knight, William Robbins, William E. Buckler, Ruth apRoberts, A. Dwight Culler, and Sara Suleri, Modern Critical Views: Matthew Arnold (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987)
David G. Riede, Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1988)

"...explores Arnold's attempts to find an authoratative language, and argues that his occasional claims for such language reveal more uneasiness than confidence in the value of 'letters.' ... Riede argues that Arnold's determined efforts to write with authority, combined with his deep-seated suspicion of his medium, result in an exciting if often agonized tension in his poetic language." –from the book flap.

Donald Stone, Communications with the Future: Matthew Arnold in Dialogue (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997)
Linda Ray Pratt, Matthew Arnold Revisited, (New York: Twayne Publishers, 2000) ISBN 080571698
Francesco Marroni, Miti e mondi vittoriani (Rome: Carocci, 2004)
Renzo D'Agnillo, The Poetry of Matthew Arnold (Rome: Aracne, 2005)

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Lesson plans for Dover Beach at Web English Teacher
Archival material relating to Matthew Arnold listed at the UK National Register of Archives
This article incorporates public domain text from : Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J. M. Dent & Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.
The W.T. Stead Resource Site
A Bibliography of the Works of Matthew Arnold by Tod E. Jones
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Imam Rauf and what's wrong with America today « Matthew Arnold Stern: About Matthew Arnold Stern. Matthew Arnold Stern, Writer. I am an award-winning public speaker and writer and past president of Saddleback Little League. In this site, I share my speeches, writing, and thoughts on a variety of subjects. ...
Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach': The Virtue of Truth: Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach'. The Virtue of Truth. Oct 21, 2007 Linda Sue Grimes. Matthew Arnold - Wikimedia Commons. Arnold's "Dover Beach" is considered a lament, albeit by an agnostic himself, of the world's loss of religious faith ...
Everyday Poems - THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS by Matthew Arnold: THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS by Matthew Arnold. Published On Sunday, September 05, 2010 By admin. Under: 1800s, Arnold, Matthews. THE WORLD'S TRIUMPHS by Matthew Arnold. So far as I conceive the world's rebuke. To him address'd who would recast ...
Government to scale down its zero-carbon homes target… or is it ...: A list of members (and any non-members who are designated as partners) of Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP is open to inspection at the LLP's registered office: 21 Station Road, Watford, WD17 1HT, United Kingdom. We use the word “partner” ...
New equal pay guidance for SMEs published « Matthew Arnold ...: Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England & Wales (registered Number: OC343595) and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. SRA Number: 508037. A list of members (and any non-members ...
Abstract of “Shakespeare” by Matthew Arnold: Others abide; to conform to; comply with; our question. Shakespeare was indeed free. They asked and asked—he was smiling and is still doin.
Columbus Local News: Region > News > SNP honors top youth carriers: From Upper Arlington: Andrew Cook, Matthew Arnold and Isabelle Scott From Northwest Columbus: Winston Linville, Adrien Cavin and Matthew Turner From Tri-Village: Bo Hawkins, Benton Bair and Kyle Modlich. From Bexley: John McGovern ...
Culture, Anarchy and the Conceptual Value of Links: Matthew Arnold points to Culture and Anarchy and “sweetness and light” meaning beauty and truth — “the best which has been thought and said in the world,” in a process of constant cultural diffusion. ...
Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold: The essay spurred a number of responses, and soon, Arnold's attempts to respond to these responses grew into a sequence of essays in Cornhill published between January to August 1868. These essays would later form the collection, ...
What Would You Do With $86400 Each Day? - Colloquy Moms: ... books, writing, container gardening, cooking, arts and crafts. Dislikes: Red tape, rude people, bad drivers and bad hair days. My Motto: "Life is not in having and getting, but in being and becoming." --Matthew Arnold {read more...} ...
Sports gear company discovered legal victory was in the pocket ...: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of Upload-IT, comments: 'This case is interesting because of the sporting subject matter. But it raises another more serious point. When someone wants to get something ...
Abstract of “the Last Word” by Matthew Arnold: Creep; move slowly and carefully, especially in order to avoid being heard or noticed.  Move or progress very slowly and steadily; into.
Abstract of “Longing” by Matthew Arnold: Arnold longs for this mysterious lady to come to him in his dreams, and then by day he shall be well again! For so the.
Beyond The Margins » Blog Archive » Ian McEwan: A Reading and a ...: Later, at a gathering after the event, I had the chance to ask McEwan about the ending of Saturday and the use of Matthew Arnold's “Dover Beach”. I told him I had found the ending very moving, but then had come to question my response, ...
Matthew Arnold: "We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know." - Matthew Arnold.
Should ASDA have gone to Specsavers to see that its strapline ...: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin and editor of Upload-IT, comments: 'This case builds on the recent L'Oréal v Bellure and Whirlpool v Kenwood cases. Asda argued that it could not be riding on the coat-tails of ...
Abstract Of “The Voice” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “the Voice” by Matthew Arnold, "Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in. ...
Series of cumulative breaches can amount to fundamental breach ...: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of Upload-IT, comments: 'This case is interesting for all commercial contracts but especially IT projects (where a number of small errors frequently occurs), ...
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. I love this poem. It is an early stream of consciousness poem, before the phrase was invented.I love the way this poem is an extended metaphor, how what appears to be a moonlight rhapsody, ...
Matthew Arnold “Growing Old ” Poem animation: Here is a virtual movie of Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888) reading his graceful thoughtful poem “Growing Old ” first published in 1849.. Matthew Arnold was the son of Thomas Arnold the celebrated strict and innovative headmaster at the ...
Abstract Of “The Pagan World” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “the Pagan World” by Matthew Arnold, "Journalism is literature in a hurry."-Mathew Arnold.
Abstract Of “The Song Of Empedocles” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “the Song of Empedocles” by Matthew Arnold, "Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite ...
Abstract Of “Memorial Verses” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “Memorial Verses” by Matthew Arnold, "Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit ...
Abstract Of “The Future” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “the Future” by Matthew Arnold, "Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!"-Mathew Arnold.
From "Memorial Verses, April 1850" by Matthew Arnold: When Byron's eyes were shut in death, we bowed our head and held our breath. He taught us little; but our soul had felt him like the thunder's roll. Thunders over the Volcano / Klearchos Kapoutsis.
immortality, matthew arnold: Foil'd by our fellow men, depress'd, outworn,; We leave the brutal world to take its way,: And, Patience! in another life, we say,; The world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne! And will not, then the immortal armies scorn ...
Longing by Matthew Arnold...: Longing Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times, A messenger from radiant climes, ...
Abstract Of “Consolation” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “Consolation” by Matthew Arnold, "Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern."-Mathew Arnold.
Abstract Of “Philomela” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “Philomela” by Matthew Arnold, "For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment"- Mathew Arnold.
St Paul Amp Protestantism With An Essay O By Matthew Arnold: Thesis Title: Na Wahi Pana O Hawai'i: Sacred Place. Read the full article.
The Function of Criticism: Living in the wake of the French Revolution, Matthew Arnold chooses to look beyond the horrific events of the revolution, and draws attention to the initial emphasis of the rebels; namely their desire for equality and reason. ...
Selected Poems Of Matthew Arnold 1908 By Matthew Arnold: Helmet) dpro:1908/10/pub:1908 Poetry And Ireland (w Lionel JOHNSON) 1908. Continue reading.
Matthew Arnold: The sentimental Irish 'always ready to react against the despotism of fact'. Matthew Arnold THE CELTIC IN LITERATURE.
Abstract Of “To A Friend” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “to a Friend” by Matthew Arnold, "Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair."-Mathew Arnold.
Abstract Of “Hayeswater” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “Hayeswater” by Matthew Arnold, "Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection."- Mathew Arnold.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) – Self-Dependence: Mathew Arnold (1822-1888) Self-Dependence Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. And [...]
Free Online Poems About Children and Childhood in Google Books: Some are historically important poems, some are poems about life lessons, and some are poems written with children in mind, like Matthew Arnold's lovely "The Forsaken Mermen." The collection has classic poems that appeal to childhood ...
Abstract Of “A Wish” By Matthew Arnold: Summary for a book by support@shvoong.com - Abstract of “a Wish” by Matthew Arnold, "Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery."- Mathew Arnold.
Author Philip Pullman unveils school's solar panels (From Oxford Mail): THE largest solar panel installation at a UK school has been unveiled at Matthew Arnold School in Cumnor.
Matthew Arnold: Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Daily Poetry – The Voice (Matthew Arnold) of Yasmine Tamara: Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888) was full of really strong emotions and opinions. His poetic works articulate the misery he felt as part of the daily 'drudgery' of life as a school inspector for Her Majesty's Schools. ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Dover Beach -- Matthew Arnold: [Brief Biography] Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888): English poet and critic. His first two volumes of poems The Strayed Reveller and other Poems (1849) and Empedocles on Etna and other Poems (1852) were published anonymously and with little ...
"Morality" by Matthew Arnold: I stole this from Poetry Friday, the blog of Tabatha A. Yeatts: Morality by Matthew Arnold We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides. ...
Digikam-users - Digikam Can't Find Kipi-Plugins: I'm running a patched but otherwise stock version of Slackware64 13.1 on an i5-750 system with 4G. KDE 4.4.3. Thanks in advance, Matt. Digikam-users - Digikam Can't Find Kipi-Plugins by Matthew Arnold on ...
Ground Truths in Afghanistan : Global Brief: Matthew Arnold is a civilian socio-political adviser for the US Department of Defense, and currently works with the French military in Kapisa Province, Afghanistan. The views expressed herein are the author's. ...
Gabriel Josipovici: Why Modernism Matters | A Piece of Monologue ...: McEwan's Saturday articulates a post-9/11 culture of middle-class conformity and the ennobling salvation of literature (the 'sweetness and light' of Matthew Arnold). While Amis' evocation of 9/11 in 'The last days of Muhammad Atta' sees ...
Abingdon Carbon cutters: CAG Newsletter: Together the roofs on Matthew Arnold and Aldi will generate approximately £50000 for re-investment in Low Carbon West Oxford's local community environmental activities as a result of the Government's feed-in tariff scheme. ...
MTBCast: Matthew Arnold called in from the finish: Matthew Arnold called in with some thoughts about his finish. He finished with a time of 21:20:14.
Matthew Arnold: Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MTBCast: Matthew Arnold calls in from Grants: Matthew Arnold called in with a recap from Grants.
Matthew Arnold: Biography from Answers.com: Matthew Arnold (born Dec. 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, Eng. — died April 15, 1888, Liverpool) English poet and literary and social critic.
Summer Reading Wrap-Up: Mitchell, Genova, Paretsky, Nordstrom ...: ... Margaret Oliphant, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Matthew Arnold, Meg Federico, Milton, Miscellaneous, Monica Ali, music, mysteries, Nadeem Aslam, Naguib Mahfouz, Nawal El Saadawi, needlework, novel reading, Nuala O'Faolain, Olivia Manning ...
Matthew Arnold quotes: Believe me, it is not failing to speak out with promptitude and energy that is the matter with you; it is having nothing consistent or valuable to say.
MTBCast: Matthew Arnold called in from Steamboat: Matthew Arnold called in from Steamboat Springs. He was at Orange Peel.
MTBCast: Matthew Arnold called in from Rawlins: Matthew Arnold called in from Rawlins. He reports seeing a huge bear since he last called.
MTBCast: Matthew Arnold called in from Union Pass: Matthew Arnold called in from on top of Union Pass.
The Agency Workers Regulations 2010: On the 1st October 2011, the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 are due to come into force. The time between publication of the final Regulations and them coming into force was intended to give recruitment agencies and hirers sufficient ...
ASA to consider charging to consider complaints: It is thought that the only charge will be from competitors rather than from consumer complainants, although Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of Upload-IT, questions: 'How will the ASA be able to ...
MTBCast: Matthew Arnold calls in from near Island Park: Matthew Arnold calls in from near Island Park. He sends out Father's Day wishes.
A Gift Imprisoned: I first read Matthew Arnold in college, having never heard of him before. I was attracted to the inherent contradictions of his prose notions and his poetic reality. At the same time he was a yearning, deeply personal poet, ...
When does a partnership exist?: A recent case has considered whether the nature of a father and son's business relationship constitutes a “partnership”. Background. The Partnership Act 1890 defines a partnership as the relationship which exists between persons ...
Legal Secretary – Banking & Finance: Outline and Purpose of the Job: To support the Lawyer(s) in all aspects of their work and responsibilities to ensure they are able to operate at optimum efficiency at all times. Key tasks will include dealing directly with clients and ...
Court fails to make time of the essence because contract provided ...: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of www.Upload-IT.com, comments: 'To some extent this case turns on its own facts. However, the key principle is that important terms should be clearly agreed in ...
Matthew Arnold: Matthew Arnold It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. Matthew Arnold Journalism is literature in a hurry. Matthew Arnold Nature, with equal mind, ...
Need advice on a compromise agreement? « Matthew Arnold & Baldwin ...: Once the initial shock had worn off and on the advice of a close friend, I called Matthew, Arnold & Baldwin to make an appointment with Rebecca Fox. My initial consultation with her was quite emotional for me, as I laid out the facts of ...
EDS agrees to pay Sky £318 million in IT contract dispute: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of Upload-IT, comments: 'This case shows the scale of the damages that can be incurred if something goes wrong, which frequently does happen with IT projects. ...
0.5% over base rate of interest is too low so statutory rate ...: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of Upload-IT, comments: 'This decision suggests that a rate of just under the statutory rate will probably be upheld and a rate close to base rate will probably be ...
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) was one of 19th century England's best known social critics and poets. He was worked as an inspector of schools, but was also a professor of poetry at Oxford, and traveled fairly widely, including to America ...
All IT contracts to be made public: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of Upload-IT, comments: 'This is great news for citizens and the media, but this raises concerns for suppliers to the Government that confidential material within ...
The Letters of Matthew Arnold: An online edition of the correspondence of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), derived from the University of Virginia Press edition in 6 volumes.
Matthew Arnold: –Matthew Arnold. Filed under: Authors, British Empire, Poets Tagged: A Believer In Culture, A Liberal, A Liberal Tempered By Experience, Above, Above All, And I Am, And I Am Above All A Believer In Culture, And Renouncement, Arnold, ...
A View From the Neutral Zone | In the Library with the Lead Pipe: Matthew Arnold—poet, cultural critic and Professor of Poetry at Oxford University—responded to Huxley during his 1882 Rede lecture with a defense of a humanities-based education: Above all, [Arnold] insisted that a training in the ...
Matthew Arnold and Goethe: About this book. Matthew Arnold and Goethe. About the author. James Simpson.
New Issue of Victorian Literature and Culture (September 2010 ...: MATTHEW ARNOLD AND RELIGION'S COSMOPOLITAN HISTORIES. Sebastian Lecourt. Victorian Literature and Culture, Volume 38, Issue 02, September 2010, pp 467 – 487. [ abstract ]. UNSPEAKABLE GEORGE ELIOT. David Kurnick ...
Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" Analysis: Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888) was an English poet and critic who wrote avidly about the social, religious, and educational issues of his day. In an era where Britain was embracing the efficiency of industrial production, and the marvels ...
Courts will look to uphold contracts and be reluctant to strike ...: Paul Gershlick, a Partner at Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP and editor of Upload-IT, comments: 'This case gives a practical reminder that parties to a contract should ensure that their contracts contain sufficient detail. ...
Allergan drops FDA lawsuit as part of off-label settlement ...: Allergan drops FDA lawsuit as part of off-label settlement. Allergan drops FDA lawsuit as part of off-label settlement. Ben Comer, Matthew Arnold. September 02, 2010. Print · Email · Reprint · Permissions; Font Size: A | A | A ...
Transcript Of Imam Rauf's CNN Interview | Sweetness & Light: "Culture is the passion for Sweetness and Light, and what is more, the passion for making them prevail." - Matthew Arnold. Buzz. Costs To Rise After Obama-Care Overhaul. jobeth: "Surrrprize...Surrrprize...Surrrprize! ...
Thyrsis (Matthew Arnold): How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village street its haunted mansion lacks, And from the sign is gone Sibylla's name, And from the roofs the twisted chimney-stacks - ...
"Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold: ".... for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain ...
The Buried Life Poem by Matthew Arnold | Daily Postal: Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, / Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! / I feel a nameless sadness o'er me roll. / Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, / We know, we know that we can smile! ...
Longing by Matthew Arnold: And part my hair, and kiss my brow, And say, My love why sufferest thou? Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For so the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. by Matthew Arnold.
Matthew Yglesias » What Are We Doing In Afghanistan?: Matthew Arnold says: October 1st, 2008 at 1:04 pm. Having just read the Dexter Filkins piece on Pakistan and the Taliban, it seems pretty clear to me that a large part of the problem is that we've been funneling gazillions to the ...
13 May 2010 by Matthew Arnold…: 13 May 2010 by Matthew Arnoldi. A collaboration between ICO (the Independent Cinema Office) and LUX has led to the commissioning of seven International artists to produce a series of short films which have been shown in Cannes in the ...
Top Chinese UN Diplomat Attacks UN, US | Sweetness & Light: "I cannot help thinking that if our liberals had had so much Sweetness and Light in their inner minds as they allege, more of it must have come out in their sayings and doings." - Matthew Arnold ...
Always Hope: This Thing of Darkness - Darwin and God revisited: Darwin was also (to use a hackneyed phrase) The grit it the oyster for Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and other Victorian poets whose faith he shook. One shipwreck, and how different the course of Western thought might have been. ...
Matthew Arnold & Dover Beach: Matthew Arnold, born on 24 December 1822 in Laleham, Middlesex, England, was poet, critic and schools inspector - not a combination you see every day! From his natal chart (set for 12 noon in the absence of a time of birth) it's clear ...
Rauf: Moving Mosque Would Cause Attacks | Sweetness & Light: "The Sweetness and Light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindled masses of humanity are touched with Sweetness and Light." - Matthew Arnold. Buzz. Rauf: Moving Mosque Would Cause Attacks ...
In Today's ALR - A Pair of Ragged Claws Books Blog | The Australian: He was one of the last exemplars of an ideal that dates back at least to Matthew Arnold: the ideal of the literary critic as the humanist par excellence. What gave the critic his special authority was the way that he thought and wrote ...
The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold: The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold. Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless sadness o'er me roll. Yes, yes, we know that we can jest, We know, we know that we can smile! ...
Remember Music Ideas: Modified Classical Music on iPods Helps ...: The scheme was tried out at Matthew Arnold School in Toxteth, and was funded by Liverpool PCT. It examined how modified classical music can help children with autism and other learning difficulties to be toilet trained. ...
Consumer Credit Directive – transitional period: The Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) has updated the timing for the UK implementation of the Consumer Credit Directive. The new Consumer Credit Directive repeals the original Directive and must be transposed into ...
Matthew Arnold: Matthew Brett Arnold was born to the late John and Patricia Arnold at Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, New York. The youngest of 8 children, 6 older brothers and one older sister,Matthew's strong ties to his family and the Long Island ...
Reading now The Study of Poetry of Matthew Arnold: Here, Mathew Arnold has given some advice both to the poets and the readers. I don't know why there is not any material or discussion about it. I think that it is an important text in the history of literary Criticism. ...
The Buried Life Poem by Matthew Arnold: Even thou, the top reason of the spark of interest is not directly associated with the famous author Matthew Arnold, the chance to slow down and read beautiful poetry cannot be missed. This poem, The Buried Life poem, ...
Thinkers For Our Time: Matthew Arnold: Besides a few of the fussier conservatives, like George Will, Matthew Arnold is seldom cited these days as an influence in contemporary society. Maybe he isn't, as such, in that few people really look to his work for guidance. ...
Matthew Arnold: It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
Biography of Matthew Arnold: Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essays, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) began his career as a poet, winning early recognition as a student at the Rugby School where his father, Thomas Arnold, had earned national ...
Matthew Arnold: And sigh that one thing only has been lent To youth and age in common—discontent. Youth's Agitations. Share/Save/Bookmark.
Something Strange and Wonderful: "Did you get pears?" @ AMERICAN ...: The Matthew Arnold is a real treat. That's more what love seems like to me. Even in long marriages. But I'm just down (friend getting divorced after more than a quarter century and the mutual suffering even when "civilized"). ...