“Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry”
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother of both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. He was also an inspector of s…
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Born 24 December 1822 · Died 15 April 1888 · Q271032
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 59 – Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold (1869)
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2007· 1 entry
The Guardian: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
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1988· 1 entry
Stefan Collini stated, "for reasons to do with our own cultural preoccupations as much as with the merits of his writing, the best of his prose has a claim on us today that cannot be matched by his poetry
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1889· 1 entry
(2) William Mansfield, 1st Viscount Sandhurst, in 1909;
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1888· 2 entries
Died 1888-04-15.
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Of heart failure whilst running to meet a tram that would have taken him to the Liverpool Landing Stage to see his daughter, who was visiting from the United States where she had moved after marrying an American
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1887· 1 entry
Arnold was credited with coining the phrase "New Journalism", a term that went on to define an entire genre of newspaper history, particularly Lord Northcliffe's turn-of-the-century press empire
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1886· 1 entry
Retired from school inspection and made another trip to America
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1883· 2 entries
William Gladstone awarded him an annual pension of 250 pounds "as a public recognition of service to the poetry and literature of England
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And 1884, Arnold toured the United States and Canada delivering lectures on education, democracy and Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1875· 1 entry
Arnold recounts a powerful sermon he attended discussing the "salvation by Jesus Christ", writing, "Never let us deny to this story power and pathos, or treat with hostility ideas which have entered so deep into the life
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1867· 1 entry
Led him to be regarded as an expert in the field, though now it is usually viewed as an expression of colonialist attitudes towards its subject
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1866· 1 entry
Published Thyrsis, his elegy to Clough who had died in 1861
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1865· 2 entries
With the first series of Essays in Criticism; second, a prolonged middle period characterised by social, political and religious writing, roughly 1860–1875; and third, a return to literary criticism with the selecting an
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Arnold published Essays in Criticism: First Series
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1861· 1 entry
His lectures On Translating Homer were published, to be followed in 1862 by Last Words on Translating Homer
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1859· 1 entry
Conducted the first of three trips to the continent at the behest of parliament to study European educational practices
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1858· 1 entry
Published his tragedy of Merope, calculated, he wrote to a friend, "rather to inaugurate my Professorship with dignity than to move deeply the present race of humans," and chiefly remarkable for some experiments in un
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1857· 2 entries
And he was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in Latin
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To the professorship of poetry at Oxford, which he held for two successive terms of five years
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1854· 1 entry
Poems: Second Series appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem Balder Dead
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1853· 1 entry
Published Poems: A New Edition, a selection from the two earlier volumes famously excluding Empedocles on Etna, but adding new poems, Sohrab and Rustum and The Scholar Gipsy
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1852· 2 entries
“rather to inaugurate my Professorship with dignity than to move deeply the present race of humans,”
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Arnold published his second volume of poems, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems
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1850· 1 entry
Wordsworth died; Arnold published his "Memorial Verses" on the older poet in Fraser's Magazine
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1849· 2 entries
With the publication of The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems by A
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Published his first book of poetry, The Strayed Reveller
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1847· 1 entry
Became Private Secretary to Lord Lansdowne, Lord President of the Council
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1845· 1 entry
After a short interlude of teaching at Rugby, Arnold was elected Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford
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1842· 1 entry
Fox How became the family's permanent residence
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1841· 1 entry
Won an open scholarship, graduating B
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1838· 1 entry
And so came under the direct tutelage of his father
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1837· 1 entry
Studied at Rugby School (1837).
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1836· 1 entry
Arnold was sent to Winchester College, but in 1837 he returned to Rugby School
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1834· 1 entry
The Arnolds occupied a holiday home, Fox How, in the Lake District
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1828· 1 entry
Thomas Arnold was appointed Headmaster of Rugby School, where the family took up residence, that year
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1822· 1 entry
Born 1822-12-24.
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