Matthew Arnold
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Macmillan and Co.
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2023
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English
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Published in 1885, this collection of Arnold's public addresses given during his 1883-84 American tour consists of "Numbers: or the Majority and the Remnant," "Literature and Science," and "Emerson," in which he judges Emerson as a mediocre poet and philosopher but nevertheless places him among the "most distinctly and honourably American of your writers."
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2023
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English
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"Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ruled from the year 161 to 180 and was an intellectual leader who fought to keep his land safe from Parthians and Germans." The mass of mankind can be carried along a course full of hardship for the natural man, can be borne over the thousand impediments of the narrow way, only by the tide of a joyful and bounding emotion. It is impossible to rise from reading Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius without a sense
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In this 1861 collection of the lectures he delivered at Oxford the previous year, Arnold finds fault with contemporary translations of Homer by Pope, Chapman, Newman, and others, setting forth his own criteria for successful translation, among which is the adoption of hexameter verse, as well as respect for Homer's cardinal virtues and his "grand style."
4) Mixed Essays
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English
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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."
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"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.
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Published in 1869, two years after passage of the Reform Bill, this collection of essays is perhaps its author's most topical critical work. Arnold defines Culture as "the best which has been thought and said" and argues that, during a time of great social change and potential upheaval, the masses could be educated to become purposeful individuals and citizens through the use of a state-run school system. The ideas put forward in this book still incite...
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Published in 1870, this volume contains the essays "St. Paul and Protestantism," "Puritanism and the Church of England," "Modern Dissent," and "A Comment on Christmas." "Hardly, perhaps," wrote Arnold, "can there be at present attempted a more beneficial service to religion, than the true criticism of this great and misunderstood author."
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Matthew Arnold was a British school inspector for over three decades, giving him the opportunity to travel around England and the Continent surveying schools. A French Eton is a study of the French educational system, including its highly democratic nature, and an argument that the English system needed to be reformed.
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This 1882 collection contains "The Incompjatibles," about the Irish Land Bill, and "An Unregarded Irish Grievance," as well as the prefaces to a number of Arnold's poems. Also included are other essays on social and literary topics, such as "Copyright" and-The Future of Liberalism."
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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.
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Assembled in the wake of the death of "Arminius von Thunder-ten-Tronckh"-struck by a stray bullet during the Franco-Prussian War-here is a collection of the fictional Prussian's letters, conversations, and opinions. A descendant of the von Thunder-ten-Tronckh family of Voltaire's Candide, Arminius proffers many views on social and pedagogic issues through these exchanges with his pen pal, Matthew Arnold, who writes back with equal vigor.
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Posthumously published in 1888, Matthew Arnold's previously collected essays on poetry and poets proved, if ever there was a doubt, Arnold's immense critical gift. His focused, honest style eludes the follies of bias. Included here are the essays, "The Study of Poetry," "Milton," "Thomas Gray," "John Keats," "Wordsworth," "Byron," and "Shelley," among others.
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This 1877 volume contains one of Arnold's most scathing attacks on the established church, "The Church of England." He berates the clergy for championing the interests of the wealthy and powerful and neglecting the poor and downtrodden. The essay was originally delivered as an address to the London clergy.
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This 1867 collection of lectures influenced the Irish literary revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Arnold characterizes the Celtic genius as fanciful and poetic, and argues that its contributions to the English national character have been overlooked or underestimated.
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'Culture and Anarchy' is a series of essays by Matthew Arnold. Arnold's famous writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture is a study of perfection." He further wrote that: "Culture seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an...
16) Matthew Arnold
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Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of Dover Beach, to the pastoral narrative of The Scholar Gipsy, Arnold cast a gaze at the main intellectual issues of the nineteenth century while giving a timeless insight into man and nature. This collection covers his major poetic works, including the narrative poems, sonnets and...
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Without the challenging precedent of Culture and Anarchy, literary criticism and sociology in England and the United States would want both purpose and direction. Manifesting the special intelligence of a literary critic of original gifts, Culture and Anarchy is still a living classic. It is addressed to the flexible and the disinterested, to those who are not committed to the findings of their particular discipline, and it assumes in its reader a...
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2023
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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...
19) George Sand
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1 July 1804 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists, including the composer and pianist Frederic Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset.