Arnold, Matthew 1822-1888

Overview

Works:	2,983 works in 10,324 publications in 5 languages and 176,858 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Essays Records and correspondence Personal correspondence Poetry Biography Controversial literature History
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Lyricist, Publishing director, Author of introduction, Other, Dedicatee, Honoree, Librettist, Sponsor, Correspondent, Recipient, Compiler, Performer
Classifications:	PR4021, 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 )
Study of poetry by Matthew Arnold( )
The second-order mind by T. S Eliot( )

Victorian fetishism : intellectuals and primitives by Peter Melville Logan( )
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: a collection of critical essays by David J DeLaura( Book )
Matthew Arnold; the poet as humanist by G. Robert Stange( Book )
The disappearance of God : five nineteenth-century writers by J. Hillis Miller( Book )
Matthew Arnold by Fraser Neiman( Book )
Imaginative reason; the poetry of Matthew Arnold by A. Dwight Culler( Book )
Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill by Edward Alexander( Book )
The cultural production of Matthew Arnold by Antony H Harrison( )
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 and the romantics by Leon Albert Gottfried( Book )
The complete prose works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

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Most widely held works by Matthew Arnold

Culture and anarchy by Matthew Arnold( )

204 editions published between 1889 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 5,103 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 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."--Jacket

Poetical works by Matthew Arnold( Book )

174 editions published between 1890 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,264 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan E. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation

The poems of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( )

71 editions published between 1800 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,957 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, "junenilia" 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

Essays in criticism by Matthew Arnold( Book )

282 editions published between 1862 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,582 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

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

218 editions published between 1873 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,324 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Probably the most influential of Arnold's theologically polemical works

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

154 editions published between 1888 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,723 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

Discourses in America by Matthew Arnold( Book )

73 editions published between 1882 and 2017 in English and held by 1,460 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 )

51 editions published between 1887 and 2000 in English and held by 1,358 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

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

66 editions published between 1875 and 2011 in English and held by 1,107 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

Essays literary & critical by Matthew Arnold( Book )

70 editions published between 1866 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 862 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

52 editions published between 1883 and 2010 in English and held by 855 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

17 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 840 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems of Wordsworth by William Wordsworth( Book )

115 editions published between 1879 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 794 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

123 editions published between 1869 and 2011 in English and held by 777 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

46 editions published between 1870 and 1978 in English and held by 774 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 )

47 editions published between 1883 and 1978 in English and German and held by 723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The study of Celtic literature by Matthew Arnold( Book )

53 editions published between 1866 and 2015 in English and held by 703 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

General Grant by Matthew Arnold( Book )

11 editions published between 1960 and 1995 in English and held by 686 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

General Grant by Matthew Arnold with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain presents conflicting essays and cultures. Matthew Arnold's 1886 essay on Grant praised the general and his posthumously published Memoirs, but to many Americans its tone seemed patronizing of their hero and country. Grant's friend and personal benefactor, Mark Twain, delivered a caustic rejoinder to the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut in April 1887. Thus Arnold became a pet prejudice of Twain's and may have served as an inspiration for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur?s Court. Arnold?s essay does not appear in his collected works. And in this volume, Twain's rejoinder is published in a correct text for the first time since the Hartford Courant printed his speech

Mixed essays by Matthew Arnold( Book )

59 editions published between 1879 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 672 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

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

40 editions published between 1888 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 670 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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