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