Matthew Arnold: References & Edit History
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A new and complete edition of Arnoldâs poems was published in âOxford Standard Authors Seriesâ (1950), ed. by C.B. Tinker and H.F. Lowry. Arnoldâs Letters (1848â1888), collected and arranged by G.W.E. Russell (1895; 2nd ed., 1901); Arnold Whitridge (ed.), Unpublished Letters (1923); Letters to Arthur Hugh Clough, with an introductory study by H.F. Lowry (ed.) (1932, reprinted 1968). There is a complete edition (literary contents) of The Note-Books of Matthew Arnold, ed. by H.F. Lowry, K. Young, and W.H. Dunn (1952). An edition deluxe of Arnoldâs complete Works, 15 vol. (1903â04), includes a bibliography by T.B. Smart. For a more recent bibliography, see T.G. Ehrsam and R.H. Deily (comps.), Bibliographies of Twelve Victorian Authors (1936; suppl. by J.G. Fucilla in Modern Philology, 37:89â96, 1939).
It was Arnoldâs expressed desire that his biography should not be written; there are, however, a number of monographs and biographico-critical works, among them Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold (1939), the best full-length study; J. Dover Wilson, Leslie Stephen and Matthew Arnold As Critics of Wordsworth (1939); Sir E.K. Chambers, Matthew Arnold: A Study (1947); J.D. Jump, Matthew Arnold, âMen and Books Seriesâ (1955); G. Robert Stange, Matthew Arnold: The Poet As Humanist (1967).
Major Works
Poetical works.
Alaric at Rome (1840; Rugby School prize poem); Cromwell (1843; Newdigate Prize poem); The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. By A. (1849); Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. By A. (1852); Poems (1853; including âSohrab and Rustum,â âThe Forsaken Merman,â and âThe Scholar Gipsyâ); Poems, Second Series (1855); Merope (1858; classical tragedy); New Poems (1867; including âThyrsisâ and âDover Beachâ).
Prose works.
The Popular Education of France with Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland (1861; revised text of the 1860 report prepared by Arnold for the Education Commission); On Translating Homer (1861); On Translating Homer: Last Words (1862); A French Eton: or, Middle Class Education and the State (1864); Essays in Criticism (1865; including âThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time,â âThe Literary Influence of Academies,â âMaurice de GuĂ©rin,â âEugĂ©nie de GuĂ©rin,â âHeinrich Heine,â âJoubert,â âSpinoza,â and âMarcus Aureliusâ); On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867); Schools and Universities on the Continent (1868; reprinted from Arnoldâs report On Secondary Education in Foreign Countries of 1866); Culture and Anarchy (1869); St. Paul and Protestantism (1870); Friendshipâs Garland (1871); Literature and Dogma (1873); God and the Bible (1875); Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877); Mixed Essays (1879); Irish Essays (1882); Discourses in America (1885); Essays in Criticism. Second Series (1888; including âThe Study of Poetryâ and essays on Milton, Thomas Gray, Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Tolstoy, and Amiel); Reports on Elementary Schools 1852â1882, edited by Sir Francis Sandford (1889; new edition with added material and introduction by F.S. Marvin, 1908).
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| Modified link of Web site: The Victorian Web - Matthew Arnold. | Feb 21, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Matthew Arnold Biography. | Sep 07, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: London School of Journalism - Matthew Arnold as a Literary Critic. | Jun 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanist Heritage - Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). | Mar 22, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Poets and Poems - Matthew Arnold. | Jan 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry in Voice - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | Feb 08, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: All Poetry - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | Feb 06, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Old and Sold - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | Mar 20, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | Mar 20, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Biography of John Philip Sousa. | Aug 07, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poets.org - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | May 01, 2012 | ||
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| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | Dec 19, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | Dec 08, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | Nov 29, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Literary Encyclopedia - Biography of Matthew Arnold. | May 24, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Victorian Web - Matthew Arnold. | Jul 13, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |