Mathew Arnold

Birth Date 24 December 1822Birth Place LalehamFather Name Thomas Arnold Friends Arthur Hugh CloughWilliam Words WorthLove Marguerite Frances Lucy Children 6 .4 Boys 2 Girls

Education

WINCHSTER SCHOOL IN 1836BALLIOL COLLEGE OXFORD 1841

Criticism

Published His Lecture On Translating Homer In 1861

Last Word S On Translating Homer In 1862

Essay On Criticism In 1865Social Essay N Criticism Friendship

Garland Mixed EssayReligion Criticism St Paul And

Protestantism God And The Bible

Theology And Social Theory

He Began Devoting His Attention To Social And Theological Subject And Literature And Dogma

Church And Religion In 1877

Arnold Classicism

Not Believe In Unbridled Imagination He Choose To trust In Intellect And Critical Spirit

Preface He Recorded His Protest Against subjectivism And Individualism

Hugh Walker

Arnolds Work Poetry

Alaric At Rome And Cromwell Was Prize Poem

Political Venture Was Strayed Reveller

Empedocles On Etna And Other Poem In 1852

Poetry Is Elegiac In CharacterMelancholy Is Clear In His PoetryDifferent Themes

Arnold Romanticism

The Forsaken Merman Full Of Romance

Love Poem Are Strikingly Romantic Although Edmund Blended Calls Them Elegies Of Love

Tribute To Words Worth Laid Us As We Lay At Birth On The Cool Flowery Lap Of EarthE.G Parting A farewell

Theory Of Poetry

A Time Is Not Far When Poetry Will Replace Science And Religion

Poet Of Nature

He Was Inspired From Wordsworth .But For Him Secret Of Nature Is Not Joy But Peace

Elegiac Poet

Most Elegiac Poet In English Literature

Entire Body Of Poetry Is Elegiac Some Time Personal And Some Time Impersonal

E.G Virgilian Cry. Melancholy. Gipsy ChildSummer Night .

Modern Element In Arnold Work

He Found Crudity Vulgarity Violence Brought Wake Of The Industrial Revolution

Dover Beach Is Modern Poem.He Is Modern Because He

Inaugurated A New Age In Criticism.

Narrative Poem

He Wrote Six Narrative Poem The Forsaken MermanMycerinusThe Sick King In BokharaTristram And Iseult In CornwallSohrab And RustumBalders Dead

Message

Arnold Seek An Ideal Life Through The Medium Of Poetry

Grand Function Of Poetry Is To Deal With Man And Destiny

Arnold Suggested Religion Moral And Aesthetic Traced Through Poetry

Mathew Arnold

Style And Language Greek Spirit In Writing Style He Had Classical Tradition In His Bone He Avoided Subjectivity Which He Said

Allegory Of Mind Elizabethan Poets Poet Should Add Two Thing One

Feeling And Thought Other Composition and Grand Style

Grace And Elegance

Eyes Too Expressive To Be Blue Too Lovely To Be Grey

He Don’t Like Metre Clarity Lucidity And Brevity Is Character Of His Style

Poetic Drama

Empedocles On Etna Merope

Lyric Poet Lyric Poet Are Essential Romantic For

Subjectivity Is The Essence Of LyricS Switzerland Poem And Fades Love

Have Lyric Grace And Delicacy .

Fades Leaves Are Synthesis Of Gravity Of Thought And Emotion

Musicality Is Strong Essence Of But Not Strong Point Of Arnold

Arnold Prose Works

A Victorian Who Deserved To Be Remember For His Verses

Prophet Of Age

Teaching And Traveling

He Was Teacher In Rugby School The Inspector Of Schools In

LansdownePrivate Sectary In Lansdowne Delivered Many Lecture In USA Awarded Fellow Ship At Oriel

Collage Traveling In Wales France Ireland

And London

Death

On 15 April 1888 Drowned In Water