Arnold, Matthew 1822-1888

Overview

Works:	3,699 works in 11,641 publications in 5 languages and 187,481 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry Essays Biographies Personal correspondence Controversial literature History Academic theses Literature
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Lyricist, Other, Honoree, Publishing director, Author of introduction, Creator, Dedicatee, Librettist, Correspondent, Illustrator, Recipient, Compiler, Performer
Classifications:	PR4022, 824.8

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Most widely held works about Matthew Arnold

The educational thought and influence of Matthew Arnold by W. F Connell( )
Matthew Arnold by Lionel Trilling( Book )
Matthew Arnold by Kenneth Allott( Book )
Victorian fetishism : intellectuals and primitives by Peter Melville Logan( )
The second-order mind by T. S Eliot( )

Study of poetry by Matthew Arnold( )
The alien vision of Victorian poetry; sources of the poetic imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold by E. D. H Johnson( Book )
Matthew Arnold, a life by Park Honan( Book )
The Victorian sage : studies in argument by John Holloway( Book )
Matthew Arnold; the poet as humanist by G. Robert Stange( Book )
Matthew Arnold: a collection of critical essays by David J DeLaura( Book )
The cultural production of Matthew Arnold by Antony H Harrison( )
Matthew Arnold by Fraser Neiman( Book )
Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill by Edward Alexander( Book )
The disappearance of God : five nineteenth-century writers by J. Hillis Miller( Book )
Imaginative reason : the poetry of Matthew Arnold by A. Dwight Culler( Book )
Overcoming Matthew Arnold : ethics in culture and criticism by James Walter Caufield( )
The portable Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )
Camelot in the nineteenth century : Arthurian characters in the poems of Tennyson, Arnold, Morris, and Swinburne by Laura C Lambdin( )
Matthew Arnold, a study in conflict by E. K Brown( Book )

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Most widely held works by Matthew Arnold

Culture and anarchy by Matthew Arnold( )

235 editions published between 1869 and 2019 in 6 languages and held by 5,070 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the titleCulture and Anarchyin 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold seeks to find out what culture really is, what good it can do, and if it is really necessary. He contrasts culture, which he calls the study of perfection, with anarchy, the mood of unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England. This edition reproduces the original book version, revealing the immediate historical context and controversy of the piece. The introduction and notes broaden out the interpretative approach to Arnold's text, elaborating on the complexities of the religious context. The book also reinforces the continued importance of Arnold's ideas its influences in the face of the challenges of multi-culturalism and post-modernism

Essays in criticism by Matthew Arnold( Book )

370 editions published between 1862 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 2,728 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This collection of essays includes literary criticisms from throughout history. Marcus Aurelius, the Philosopher Emperor, is included in the last chapter of the volume

The poems of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( )

70 editions published between 1800 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,704 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The first fully annotated edition of Arnold's poems, containing, in addition to all the pieces published in the poet's lifetime, "juvenilia" not previously in print, unfinished poems and poetic fragments, the verse translations from Homer (previously uncollected) and the missing first half of one of Arnold's love poems, "The River". The first of four appendices contains the 1853 and 1854 Prefaces, also fully annotated

Literature & dogma; an essay towards a better apprehension of the Bible by Matthew Arnold( Book )

227 editions published between 1873 and 2018 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,471 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Probably the most influential of Arnold's theologically polemical works

Essays in criticism; second series by Matthew Arnold( Book )

156 editions published between 1865 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,923 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This 1888 volume offers a collection of literary essays by the British poet and critic, including essays on John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley

The poetical works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

159 editions published between 1890 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 1,848 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This eBook version of Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold presents the full text of this literary classic

Discourses in America by Matthew Arnold( Book )

87 editions published between 1882 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 1,593 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The first discourse was originally given in New York, and afterwards published in the Nineteenth century; the second was given as the Rede lecture at Cambridge, and recast for delivery in America; the third was delivered in Boston

Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

49 editions published between 1887 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,366 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Stimulated by preparing his lectures, many of the earliest published in 1865 as Essays in Criticism (First Series), he turned increasingly to the vigorous and widely ranging polemical commentaries on culture, religion, and society which were to make him known at home and abroad as the foremost critic of his day. He died suddenly of heart failure on 15 April 1888 while awaiting at Liverpool the arrival of his married daughter from America

Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism by Matthew Arnold( Book )

109 editions published between 1869 and 2020 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"First edition (Smith, Elder & Co) January, 1869 Reprinted (John Murray) February, 1920 "

God & the Bible; a review of objections to 'Literature & dogma' by Matthew Arnold( Book )

67 editions published between 1875 and 2011 in English and held by 1,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is." In this towering 1875 work, Arnold grapples with the problem of finding religious meaning in a scientific age

Poetical works by Matthew Arnold( Book )

1 edition published in 1950 in English and held by 1,153 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems of Wordsworth by William Wordsworth( Book )

117 editions published between 1879 and 2020 in English and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays literary & critical by Matthew Arnold( Book )

70 editions published between 1866 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 867 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Introduction by G.K. Chesterton."First published in this edition, 1906; reprinted ... 1933." Bibliography: p.xv

Essays, letters, and reviews by Matthew Arnold( Book )

21 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 837 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On the study of Celtic literature ; and, On translating Homer by Matthew Arnold( Book )

48 editions published between 1867 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Mixed essays by Matthew Arnold( Book )

70 editions published between 1879 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 744 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Each essay in this 1880 edition of Mixed Essays is on a different subject yet all exhibit unity of tendency," in Arnold's words. It contains the works Democracy, Equality, Irish Catholicism and British Liberalism, 'Porro unum est Necessarium, ' A Guide to English Literature, Falkland, A French Critic on Milton, A French Critic on Goethe, and George Sand

Culture & anarchy, an essay in political and social criticism; and Friendship's garland, being the conversations, letters, and opinions of the late Arminius, baron von Thunderten-Tronckh by Matthew Arnold( Book )

43 editions published between 1883 and 2010 in English and German and held by 732 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1866 by Matthew Arnold( Book )

51 editions published between 1906 and 2012 in English and held by 725 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

St. Paul & Protestantism, with an essay on Puritanism & the Church of England, and Last essays on church & religion by Matthew Arnold( Book )

43 editions published between 1870 and 2017 in English and held by 721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To disengage the religion of England from unscriptural Protestantism, political Dissent, and a spirit of watchful jealousy, may be an aim not in our day reachable; and still it is well to level at it.--Provided by author in preface

Civilization in the United States; first and last impressions of America by Matthew Arnold( Book )

42 editions published between 1888 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 697 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Arnold toured America, the land where his daughter had married and settled, twice before publishing this 1888 controversial work. It sets forth Arnold's often harsh criticisms of American civilization or, rather, the lack thereof, for he makes no secret of finding the cultural climate of the United States backward or even primitive

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