The Matthew Arnold Page

Photograph of Arnold

( 1822-1888 )


Major Works
Penguin publishes both a Selected Prose and a Selected Poems. There is a good selection of prose and poetry in The Oxford Authors Arnold, edited by Miriam Allott and Robert H. Super, 1986.
The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems ( 1849 ).
Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems ( 1852 )
Poems ( 1853; 1854; 1857 ).
Poems: Second Series ( 1855 ).
Merope ( 1858 ).
On Translating Homer: Three Lectures ( 1861 ).
"The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" ( 1864 ) Lecture.
Essays in Criticism ( 1865-1888 ).
On the Study of Celtic Literature ( 1867 ).
Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism ( 1869; 1875 ).On Line
Literature and Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Appreciation of the Bible ( 1873 ).
God and the Bible: A Review of Objections ( 1875 ).
Civilization in the United States ( 1888 ).
Eight poems by Arnold On Line from Bartleby.

About Arnold
Park Honan, Matthew Arnold: A Life. Harvard, 1983.
Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold. Originally published, 1939. Reprinted Harcourt Brace, 1979.
Matthew Arnold from The Victorian Web.
Arnold Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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