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	Matthew Arnold - LoveToKnow 1911
		MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888), English poet, literary critic and inspector of schools, was born at Laleham, near Staines, on the 24th of December 1822.
		Arnold took charge of the district of Westminster, and remained in that office until his resignation, taking also an occasional share in the inspection of training colleges for teachers, and in conferences at the central office.
		Arnold was a prominent figure in that great galaxy of Victorian poets who were working simultaneously - Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, William Morris and Swinburne - poets between whom there was at least this connecting link, that the quest of all of them was the old-fashioned poetical quest of the beautiful.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Matthew_Arnold (3752 words)

	Matthew Arnold and the Jesus Seminar
		Arnold, however, recognizes not only that each gospel writer altered the words of Jesus while providing for them "a setting and a connexion," but also that the gospels themselves continued to be "liable to changes, interpolations, additions" until sometime towards the end of the second century.
		Arnold was not, of course, in a position to discern the political implications of the historical Jesus as well as modern scholars, and it would be unfair to suppose that Arnold deliberately or selectively chose to develop only those aspects of Jesus’s mission that were in agreement with his own view of Culture.
		Arnold had given paramount significance to the apostle Paul as the one who combined Jesus’s Hebraism with Hellenism and, thus, set the example for all Christians of applying, in a free flow of thought, the best that is being thought in the world.
	www.tejones.net /MatthewArnold/JesusSeminar.html (4907 words)

	Matthew Arnold as a Literary Critic
		Arnold's evaluations of the Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats are landmarks in descriptive criticism, and as a poet-critic he occupies an eminent position in the rich galaxy of poet-critics of English literature.
		Arnold believed that a modern writer should be aware that contemporary literature is built on the foundations of the past, and should contribute to the future by continuing a firm tradition.
		Arnold also believed that in his quest for the best a critic should not confine himself to the literature of his own country, but should draw substantially on foreign literature and ideas, because the propagation of ideas should be an objective endeavour.
	www.literature-study-online.com /essays/arnold.html (4123 words)

	Arnold, Matthew. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Arnold was educated at Rugby; graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in 1844; and was a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford in 1845.
		Matthew Arnold was also one of the most important literary critics of his age.
		Arnold was the apostle of a new culture, one that would pursue perfection through a knowledge and understanding of the best that has been thought and said in the world.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ar/Arnold-M.html (559 words)

	Matthew Arnold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Arnold was born in 1822, the son of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the legendary head of Rugby School.
		Arnold was, far more than his son, the kind of Victorian later generations rebelled against; highly religious and highly authoritarian, he turned Rugby into the archetypal British public school, designed to produce Christian gentlemen.
		The story of Arnold the poet is a sad one: melancholy and elegiac in his verse, he became frustrated with his inability to create "animating and ennobling" poetry, such as he admired in Homer and Sophocles.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/04-97/ARNOLD.html (846 words)

	Matthew Arnold
		Arnold, it is true, did not continue to wander disconsolate 'between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born'; but if he finally threw in his lot with the modern spirit and the future, it was only after a severe struggle.
		Arnold always assumes a core of normal experience, a permanent self in man, and rates a writer according to the degree of his insight into this something that abides through all the flux of circumstance, or, as he himself would say, according to the depth and soundness of this writer's criticism of life.
		Arnold looked, so far as he looked to any outer agency for securing a qualitative democracy, to an education that was to be held up to high standards by the state and was in turn to supply the state with trained leaders.
	www.nhinet.org /arnold.htm (3650 words)

	Matthew Arnold: A Biography
		atthew Arnold, poet and critic, was born at Laleham on the Thames, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, historian and great headmaster of Rugby, and of Mary (Penrose) Arnold.
		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.
		In 1883 Gladstone conferred on Arnold a pension of £250 a year, enabling him to retire from the post in the exercise of which he had not only traveled the length and breadth of England, but made several trips abroad to report on continental education.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/arnold/bio.html (1350 words)

	Matthew Arnold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arnold wrote during the Victorian period (1837–1901), and is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, behind Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson and Robert Browning.
		Arnold is famous for introducing a methodology of literary criticism through his Essays in Criticism (1865, 1888), which influence critics to this day.
		Arnold believed that rules for an objective approach in literary criticism existed, and argued that these rules should be followed by all critics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matthew_Arnold (901 words)

	Matthew Arnold
		Such essays as the first of these, embodying as they did Arnold's views of theological and polemical subjects, attracted much attention at the time of their publication, owing to the state of the intellectual atmosphere at the moment; but it is doubtful, perhaps, whether they will be greatly considered in the future.
		Arnold was a prominent figure in that great galaxy of Victorian poets who were working simultaneously -- Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, William Morris and Swinburne -- poets between whom there was at least this connecting link, that the quest of all of them was the old-fashioned poetical quest of the beautiful.
		The place Arnold held and still holds as a critic is due more to his exquisite felicity in expressing his views than to the penetration of his criticism.
	www.nndb.com /people/061/000084806 (2211 words)

	Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach": An Introduction
		Matthew Arnold (1822-99) dedicated his life -- as a scholar, professor of English, poet, and essayist -- to developing and instituting the English canon as we now know it.
		By reading Arnold's efforts to divorce the study of literature form contemporary events as a response to the class tensions in Britain and on the Continent, we can begin to understand the means by which it encodes political commentary in literary criticism.
		Arnold's "Dover Beach" (like Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's "Felicia Hemans", and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess") is a dramatic monologue, in which the unnamed speaker addresses an implied but silent listener.
	www.unlv.edu /faculty/droisen/ArnoldM_Dover_Beach_Intro.html (1885 words)

	Amazon.ca: Arnold: 'Culture and Anarchy' and Other Writings: Books: Matthew Arnold,Stefan Collini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written.
		Matthew Arnold's incredibly important Culture and Anarchy has been available for many years in this unhandsome condition, but the status of Arnold as an arbiter of Anglophone culture determines that we take this book at more than face value.
		Arnold was a three dimensional human being, deeply afraid that materialism was breeding crassness, and that crassness would destroy the best in everything worth being and knowing in every culture in the world.
	www.amazon.ca /Arnold-Culture-Anarchy-Other-Writings/dp/052137796X (594 words)

	Victorian Studies--Arnoldian Ethnology
		Arnold was clearly egalitarian when it came to the dissemination of ''sweetness and light'' (5: 99), and he was hardly a purist when the issue was race, emphasizing instead the hybrid vigor of the English.
		Arnold's appeal to the English presumes what to him would be historically obvious: the English are the hardier (politically and spiritually dominant) stock, both by virtue of their sound Teutonic basis (or primary humor) and by virtue of their heterosis, that is, of the various racial humors that have been bred into that basis.
		Arnold's notions of racially based cultural traits and cultural cross-breeding might appear to be of little relevance to the larger rise of ''multicultural'' pedagogy in recent years and to contemporary notions of cultural hybridity and cross-cultural aesthetic practice.
	iupjournals.org /victorian/vic41-3pec.html (6799 words)

	Arnold
		Matthew Arnold is buried in the family plot in All Saints' Churchyard, Laleham, Middlesex.
		Arnold was the son of Thomas Arnold, a Headmaster of Rugby School, who is also buried in the churchyard.
		In 1858 Arnold became Professor of Poetry at Oxford University which was rather ironic as, with the exception of one further poetry collection, he wrote prose for the rest of his life.
	www.poetsgraves.co.uk /arnold.htm (217 words)

	Matthew Arnold — Poet Seers
		Matthew Arnold was the son of Thomas Arnold, who was a noted and innovative headmaster of Rugby school.
		Matthew Arnold’s writings, to some extent characterized many of the Victorian beliefs with regard to religious faith and morality.
		Whilst Matthew Arnold’s poetry did not have the poetic fire of say Blake or Wordsworth his writings are “characterised by the finest culture, high purpose, sincerity and a style of great distinction and much of his poetry had “an exquisite and subtle beauty”
	www.poetseers.org /the_romantics/matthew_arnold (353 words)

	Amazon.fr : Culture and Anarchy: Livres en anglais: Matthew Arnold,Maurice Cowling,Samuel Lipman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In it Arnold contrasts culture, which he defines as "the study of perfection," with anarchy, the prevalent mood of England's then new democracy, which lacks standards and a sense of direction.
		Arnold classified English society into the Barbarians (with their lofty spirit, serenity, and distinguished manners and their inaccessibility to ideas), the Philistines (the stronghold of religious nonconformity, with plenty of energy and morality but insufficient "sweetness and light"), and the Populace (still raw and blind).
		This new edition of Matthew Arnold`s influential text is accompanied by four specially commissioned essays that analyze Arnold`s ideas from divergent political and literary perspectives and link them to contemporary concerns over the health of western culture in an increasingly multicultural society.
	www.amazon.fr /Culture-Anarchy-Matthew-Arnold/dp/0300058675 (423 words)

	Island of Freedom - Matthew Arnold
		Matthew Arnold was a major Victorian poet, the principal English literary critic of his generation, an important commentator on society and culture, and an effective government official.
		Arnold began to publish literary criticism after his appointment in 1857 as professor of poetry at Oxford.
		In his poetry Arnold often expressed the sadness of living in an age in which what one loved most was in jeopardy.
	www.island-of-freedom.com /ARNOLD.HTM (540 words)

	Matthew Arnold Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham on the Thames on Dec. 24, 1822.
		Arnold suggests that his readers keep always in mind certain sublime moments in literature which will serve as "touchstones" in the judgment of contemporary work.
		Arnold was one of the great Victorian controversialists, and his books are contributions to a national discussion of literature, religion, and education.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/matthew-arnold (1320 words)

	Critical Perspective of Matthew Arnold's Sister
		As I review Matthew Arnold’s critique of the ordinary self, I imagine, since bibliographic entries fail to mention siblings beyond a younger brother, that Arnold had “a wonderfully gifted sister” named Matilda.
		Matthew Arnold must have found his sister's secret notebook for Matilda in fact conceived the Arnoldian categories of evaluation long before he presented them to the world.
		While Matthew, content with male privilege, could plead for disinterested criticism, his sister knew that politics underlie artistic judgment, that social change requires application of the good, true, and beautiful to women's lives as well.
	members.tripod.com /~ElizBrunner/Scholar/ArnoldsSister.html (846 words)

	Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Famous Poets -- Matthew Arnold
		Matthew Arnold, poet and critic, was born at Laleham on the Thames, Dec. 24, 1822, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, historian and great headmaster of Rugby, and of Mary (Penrose) Arnold.
		Not much of Arnold's verse will stand the test of his own criteria; far from being classically poised, impersonal, serene, and grand, it is often intimate, personal, full of romantic regret, sentimental pessimism, and nostalgia.
		As a public and social character and as a prose writer, Arnold was sunny, debonair, and sanguine; but beneath ran the current of his buried life, and of this much of his poetry is the echo:
	www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/famous/arnold/matthew.html (357 words)

	Matthew Arnold
		It was on this date, December 24, 1822, that British critic and poet Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham on the Thames, the son of the headmaster at Rugby.
		A snappy dresser and a raconteur, Arnold was generally sunny in disposition and sentimental in his poetry.
		Arnold was a leading literary critic and wrote many essays, which displayed a seriously Rationalist streak.
	www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com /rants/1224almanac.htm (618 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - 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 acclaim as a strict and innovative headmaster.
		Empedocles on Etna (1852) and Poems (1853) established Arnold's reputation as a poet and in 1857 he was offered a position, which he accepted and held until 1867, as Professor of Poetry at Oxford.
		In "To Marguerite—Continued," for example, Arnold revises Donne's assertion that "No man is an island," suggesting that we "mortals" are indeed "in the sea of life enisled." Other well-known poems, such as "Dover Beach," link the problem of isolation with what Arnold saw as the dwindling faith of his time.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/88 (684 words)

	Learning Commons - What is Culture? - Definitions - Arnold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a preeminent poet of the Victorian era, a lifelong educator, a pioneer in the field of literary criticism, a government official (Inspector of Schools), and an influential public figure.
		Arnold's view of culture as involving such characteristics as "beauty," "intelligence," and "perfection" is a Neoplatonic one -- that is, it tends to assume that these values exist in the abstract and are the same for all human societies.
		Swift, who of one of the two, at any rate, had himself all too little, most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books,--"the two noblest of things, sweetness and light." The man with a finely tempered nature is the man who tends toward sweetness and light.
	www.wsu.edu:8001 /vcwsu/commons/topics/culture/culture-definitions/arnold-text.html (487 words)

	[minstrels] Dover Beach -- Matthew Arnold
		In Essays and Criticism (1865) Arnold widened the limits of literary criticism by using it to attack the state of English culture.
		To come back to the poem in question, when Arnold finally admits to himself and his new wife that his faith has drained away and there is nothing but violence, ignorance and blind stupidity in the world in which we find ouselves, I cannot for one moment interpret this as a juvenile statement.
		Arnold laments the impossiibility of faith in a world where science dictates what man is and ought to be.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/89.html (3096 words)

	ENG 102: Matthew Arnold
		Matthew Arnold, poet and critic, was born at Laleham on the Thames, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, historian and great headmaster of Rugby, and of Mary (Penrose) Arnold.
		conferred on Arnold a pension of £250 a year, enabling him to retire from the post in the exercise of which he had not only traveled the length and breadth of England, but made several trips abroad to report on continental education.
		In the first stanza of the poem, for example, Arnold displays his admiration with liberal French culture, which, from the "glimmering and vast" cliffs of Dover (line 5), appears ephemeral: "on the French coast the light / Gleams and is gone" (lines 3-4).
	journals.aol.com /hobomok/hobomoksnotes/entries/2005/02/08/eng-102-matthew-arnold/1220 (2642 words)

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