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This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). Arnold's many facets--as poet, educationalist, literary critic, cultural commentator, and religious controversialist--are represented; and the text is fully annotated.
List of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Letters to Clough (1847-49)
- Fragment of Chorus of a 'Dejaneira' (? 1847-8)
- From The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849)
- Sonnet [Quiet Work]
- Mycerinus
- To a Friend
- The Strayed Reveller
- Shakspeare
- Written in Butler's Sermons
- Written in Emerson's Essays
- To an Independent Preacher
- To a Republican Friend
- Continued
- Religious Isolation
- To my Friends
- To Fausta
- The Hayswater Boat
- The Forsaken Merman
- Resignation
- Letters to Clough and others (1849-52)
- From Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852)
- Empedocles on Etna
- The Lake [Meeting]
- Parting
- Absence
- Destiny
- To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis [To Marguerite - Continued]
- Human Life
- Despondency
- Self-Deception
- Memorial Verses
- A Summer Night
- The Buried Life
- A Farewell
- Stanzas in Memory of the Author of 'Obermann'
- Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
- The Second Best
- The Youth of Nature
- Letters to Clough and Frances Arnold (1853)
- From Poems. A New Edition (1853)
- Preface
- [Quiet Work]
- Sohrab and Rustum. An Episode
- A Dream
- The Scholar Gipsy
- Letters to Clough (November 1853)
- General Report for the Year 1853 (1854)
- From Poems. Second Edition (1854)
- Preface
- From Fraser's Magazine (April 1855)
- Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
- From Fraser's Magazine (May 1855)
- Haworth Chuchyard
- Fragment from 'Lucretius' (? 1856-7)
- From Poems. Third Edition (1857)
- To Marguerite. [Isolation-To Marguerite]
- Isolation [To Marguerite-Continued]
- Letter to Mary Arnold (1857)
- On the Modern Element in Literature (1857)
- From Merope (1858)
- Letter K (1858)
- From On Translating Homer (1861)
- From The Popular Education of France (1861)
- Introduction [Democracy]
- From Last Words on Translating Homer (1862)
- General Report for the Year 1863 (1864)
- From A French Eton (1864)
- From Essays in Criticism (1865)
- Preface
- The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
- The Literary Influence of Academies
- From Maurice de Guérin
- From Heinrich Heine
- From Joubert
- From Cornhill Magazine (1966)
- My Countrymen
- From On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867)
- From New Poems (1867)
- Thyrsis
- East London
- West London
- Austerity of Poetry
- Calais Sands
- Dover Beach
- Growing Old
- A Caution to Poets
- Rugby Chapel
- General Report for the Year 1867 (1868)
- From Culture and Anarchy (1869)
- Letter to Mary Arnold (1869)
- From The Pall Mall Gazette (1869)
- From St Paul and Protestantism (1870)
- From Literature and Dogma (1873)
- Our aspiration quits us, not our need (1875)
- From The Nineteenth Century (1879)
- S.S. Lusitania
- From The Poems of Wordsworth (1879)
- Preface
- From The Hundred Greatest Men (1879)
- Poetry: Introduction
- From The English Poets, ed. T.H. Ward (1880)
- General Introduction: On the Study of Poetry
- Thomas Gray
- John Keats
- From The Poetry of Byron (1881)
- From Preface
- From Poems. New and Complete Edition (1881)
- Geist's Grave
- From Irish Essays (1882)
- From The Incompatibles
- From The French Play in London
- From Macmillan's Magazine (1883)
- An Address to the Wordsworth Society
- From Literature and Dogma. Popular Edition (1883)
- Preface to this Edition
- From Discourses in America (1885)
- Literature and Science
- From Poems (1885)
- Poor Matthias
- From The Times, 13 November 1886
- Mr Matthew Arnold and the Westminster Teachers
- From Fortnightly Review (1887)
- Kaiser Dead
About the author
Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature and Massey Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. His publications include Coleridge and the Uses of Division and Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, and, co-edited with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Tennyson Among the Poets (all OUP).
Summary
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). Arnold's many facets--as poet, educationalist, literary critic, cultural commentator, and religious controversialist--are represented; and the text is fully annotated.
