They are impure, in the sense that considerations outside the work of art—interaction with his other poems, or a background of ... Alan Harris, “Matthew Arnold: The “Unknown Years,'” Nineteenth Century • 6 • I JW T R O D U C T I O W'
Critic, essayist, educator and poet, author of The Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach, The Forsaken Merman and other popular poems.
Matthew Arnold BY LIONEL TRILLING NEW YORK COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON GEORGE ALLEN and UNWIN, LTD. Copyright 1939, 1949, by Lionel Trilling FIRST PRINTING 1939 BY W. W. NORTON COMPANY, INC.
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Matthew Arnold: A Critical Portrait
Matthew Arnold
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A detailed biography of the Victorian poet, literary and social critic, and essayist.
Matthew Arnold -- was he a powerful and poetic spokesman, sensitive to the first troubled stirrings of a new society, or was he a weak versifier and a self-contradictory critic...
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is given in most of the following general studies, all entitled Matthew Arnold: the large standard work by Lionel Trilling (1939 and later edns.), which retains its vitality and distinction; and the small books by Sir Edmund Chambers ...
The lectures were published in the Contemporary. Another lecture in early 1876, "The Church of England', also reminds us of connections between Arnold's formative years and his mature religious thought. As Super points out, ...
... Arnold's language , especially in the poems . For Riede , Arnold is sloppy and illogical . Especially in his poems and his discus- sions of culture , Arnold " assumes [ Riede's italics ] the power in words to cultivate the mind " ( 21 ) ...
... language in David Riede's study, Matthew Arnold and The Betrayal of Language, and to objectivity and subjectivity in Isobel Armstrong's book, Victorian Poetry. These analyses of a double Arnold point to conflicts in early ...