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Arnold, Matthew
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Arnold, Matthew (1822–88). Poet and critic. Son of Thomas
Arnold, headmaster of Rugby school, Matthew was educated also at Winchester and Oxford, before election to an Oriel fellowship (1845). From 1851 to 1883 he was an inspector of schools, sent to study systems in Europe, and became a leading propagandist for improved secondary education in England. Emerging as a mature poet by 1853, with a recognizably Celtic temperament (from his mother), he was professor of poetry at Oxford 1857–67, but subsequently turned to literary then social criticism. He broadened the accepted form of the critical essay, and in
Culture and Anarchy (1869) famously classified English society into ‘Barbarians, Philistines and Populace’ as it lagged behind continental ideas; refusal to comply with Victorian complacency about England's perceived world-wide supremacy was unforgivable to many. Arnold's religious liberalism found voice in subsequent works which sought to free Christianity from doctrinal lumber, despite his own admiration for
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Cecil Y. Lang, ed., The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. I, 1829-1859.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 9/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Lang, ed., The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. I, 1829-1859 (UP of...first volume of The Letters of Matthew Arnold is a landmark in literary scholarship...safe to say that The Letters of Matthew Arnold provides a window on the intellectual...
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Matthew Arnold, our contemporary.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold (Basic Books, 1999), 250 pp...00 cloth; Clinton Machann, Matthew Arnold: A Literary Life (St. Martin...Nicholas Murray, A Life of Matthew Arnold (St. Martin's Press, 1997...
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Matthew Arnold. The Yale Manuscript: Matthew Arnold.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 12/22/1989; ; 700+ words
; Matthew Arnold. The Yale Manuscript: Matthew Arnold. Edited and with Commentary by S.O.A. Ullmann. Ann...describes this book as "A collection of documents, written by Matthew Arnold between 1843 and 1856/57, that contains poems, poetic...
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Matthew Arnold and the Lowestoft "Witches".(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; A Psychological Parallel," Matthew Arnold's "envoi to his writings on...easterly city, and the home of Matthew Arnold's ancestors. (14) Lowestoft...fishing for herring. Dr. Thomas Arnold, Matthew's father, who was keenly interested...
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Matthew Arnold.(Guide to the year's work)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...individual poems. In "Matthew Arnold's 'Rugby Chapel...shows how the persona of Matthew Arnold's father as reflected...ironic reference in Dr. Arnold's account of a tour...years before the birth of Matthew) may have suggested...
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Matthew Arnold, the masses, and arts education.
Magazine article from: Arts Education Policy Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...United States through the lens of Matthew Arnold's work and prose during his...about arts education. Keywords: Matthew Arnold, arts education policies, government...education ********** Matthew Arnold was one of the most eloquent spokesmen...
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Matthew Arnold.(Guide to the Year's Work)
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Smith, Arthur Hugh Clough, and Matthew Arnold" (42: 509-520), in which...The Uses of Distinction: Matthew Arnold and American Literary Realism...Finding an Audience for Clarel in Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism" (Leviathan...
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Finding an audience for Clarel in Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Leviathan; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Melville read extensively in Matthew Arnold's writings before, during...proposed by Arnold. "Unlike Matthew Arnold's synthesis," which she characterizes...left behind. Thomas Arnold was Matthew Arnold's father, the well-known...
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Cecil Y. Lang, ed., The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 2: 1860-65.(The Letters of Matthew Arnold, vol. 3: 1866-1870)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Lang, ed., The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 2: 1860-65 (UP of...00 cloth;--, The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 3: 1866-1870 (UP of...Volumes 2 and 3 of The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Cecil Y. Lang's history...
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Selected Letters of Matthew Arnold.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose; 3/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; Selected Letters of Matthew Arnold, eds. Clinton Machann and Forrest...W.E. Russell's Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888 (2 vols., 1895...Whitridge's Unpublished Letters of Matthew Arnold (1923), and H. F. Lowry...
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Matthew Arnold
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Matthew Arnold The most characteristic work of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) deals with the difficulty...industrialism, science, and democracy. Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham on the Thames on...
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Arnold, Matthew
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Arnold, Matthew (1822–88), eldest son of Thomas Arnold , was educated at Rugby, Winchester, and at Balliol...x201D;’, which show how profoundly Arnold had been affected by Senancour's novel. Poems, Second...
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Thomas Arnold
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Further Reading T.W. Bamford, Thomas Arnold (1960), provides new insight into Arnold's life and work. More traditional views...influence are in Joshua G. Fitch, Thomas and Matthew Arnold and Their Influence on English Education...
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Arnold, Thomas
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Arnold, Thomas (1795–1842), is remembered principally as the...held in great personal veneration by his pupils, who included his son Matthew Arnold , Clough , A. P. Stanley , and Thomas Hughes , author of Tom Brown...
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Resistance
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...century later, Burke's countryman Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888) takes...ignorant armies clash by night." Arnold's mid-nineteenth century England...principle of resistance was needed; for Arnold it was culture. As "the best which...
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