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Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.
Matthew Arnold left behind him a variety of literary achievements. This book begins with an examination of the Arnoldian "voice" and ends with an appraisal and a defense of some of the ways in which he has influenced modern English culture. The book seeks to reveal that it is as a social and literary critic--especially as the author of Essays in Criticism and Culture and Anarchy--that he still commands most attention today.
Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --
In this book, Hamilton brings his own formidable critical gifts and his lifelong passion for his subject to bear on one of the most mysterious literary figures of the last century or of this. The result is a biography of rare originality & significance.
This book demonstrates in particular how Matthew Arnold's work in education leads to his use of indirect methods of political influence - methods that he has observed in politics, literature and journalism.
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). Arnold's many facets--as poet, educationalist, literary critic, cultural commentator, and religious controversialist--are represented; and the text is fully annotated.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Matthew Arnold" by George Saintsbury. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
This important and influential inquiry into the history of religious and moral ideas in the nineteenth century has become (since its first appearance in 1949) a seminal study for all students of English literature and the history of ideas. In it, the author examines a shifting succession of beliefs.