Arnold, Matthew 1822-1888

Overview

Works:	2,910 works in 10,001 publications in 5 languages and 176,493 library holdings
Genres:	Criticism, interpretation, etc Essays Records and correspondence Biography Poetry History
Roles:	Author, Editor, Translator, Lyricist, Author of introduction, Other, Dedicatee, Honoree, Librettist, Sponsor, Correspondent, Performer, Recipient, Compiler
Classifications:	PR4021, 821.8

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Most widely held works about Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold by Lionel Trilling( Book )
Matthew Arnold by Kenneth Allott( Book )
Matthew Arnold, the poetry: the critical heritage by Carl Dawson( Book )
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 )
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 )
Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill by Edward Alexander( Book )
The portable Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )
The complete prose works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )
Matthew Arnold; the poet as humanist by G. Robert Stange( Book )
Matthew Arnold by Fraser Neiman( Book )
The educational thought and influence of Matthew Arnold by W. F Connell( Book )
The poems of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )
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( Book )
The cultural production of Matthew Arnold by Antony H Harrison( Book )
Victorian fetishism : intellectuals and primitives by Peter Melville Logan( Book )

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Most widely held works by Matthew Arnold

Culture and anarchy by Matthew Arnold( Book )

338 editions published between 1869 and 2015 in 6 languages and held by 3,224 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 )

169 editions published between 1890 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Arnold belongs to the great galaxy of Victorian poets whose quest was beauty

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

334 editions published between 1862 and 2016 in 5 languages and held by 2,763 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

Literature and dogma by Matthew Arnold( Book )

250 editions published between 1873 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,055 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this influential 1873 essay, Arnold professes his skepticism about Christianity as a revealed religion yet argues for the utility of its ethical precepts. Therefore he proposes a liberal reading of scripture and secular faith that incorporates the civilizing aspects of religion

Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

69 editions published between 1887 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,488 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

The poems of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

82 editions published between 1800 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,296 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

One of a series designed to provide university students and teachers, and the general reader, with complete and fully annotated editions of major English poets

Discourses in America by Matthew Arnold( Book )

76 editions published between 1882 and 2017 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,100 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

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

65 editions published between 1875 and 2013 in English and held by 882 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, letters, and reviews by Matthew Arnold( Book )

17 editions published in 1960 in English and held by 841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays literary & critical by Matthew Arnold( Book )

75 editions published between 1866 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 783 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

36 editions published between 1883 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1867 by Matthew Arnold( Book )

76 editions published between 1906 and 2012 in English and held by 723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems of Wordsworth by William Wordsworth( Book )

107 editions published between 1879 and 2009 in English and held by 710 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 )

42 editions published between 1883 and 1978 in English and German and held by 634 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

General Grant by Matthew Arnold( Book )

11 editions published between 1960 and 1995 in English and held by 613 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

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

35 editions published between 1888 and 2011 in English and held by 542 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

Mixed essays by Matthew Arnold( Book )

50 editions published between 1879 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 467 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

The study of Celtic literature by Matthew Arnold( Book )

51 editions published between 1866 and 2012 in English and held by 426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selections from the prose works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

17 editions published between 1897 and 2012 in English and held by 366 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The portable Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold( Book )

16 editions published between 1949 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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