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020			_a9780199541881
082			_a821.8 _bCOL
100			_aCollini, Stefan
245			_aMatthew Arnold: a critical portrait
260			_bOxford University Press, _c2008 _aOxford :
300			_aix, 143 p.; _c21 cm
365			_b37.99 _cGBP _d104.20
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aMatthew Arnold (1822-88) was the leading critic and essayist of the Victorian age and the author of several of the period's most haunting poems of melancholy and loss. His work, notably Essays in Criticism and Culture and Anarchy, exerted a decisive influence over subsequent thinking about criticism and culture, and he remains an inescapable reference-point today." "In this perceptive and stylish study, Stefan Collini examines the whole range of Arnold's literary, social, and religious criticism as well as his poetry, placing them in the context of the major intellectual controversies of the nineteenth century. By attending to the distinctive power of Arnold's writing to charm, tease, persuade, and irritate, the book provides a brilliant characterization of the tone and temper of his mind. This edition includes a substantial Afterword which reflects on Arnold's continuing polemical significance and his role in contemporary cultural debate.
650			_aArnold
650			_aAnglican Church
650			_a Bible
650			_aCarlyle,Thomas
650			_a Dissentars
650			_a Eliot,T.S.
650			_aHomer
650			_aJames,Henry
650			_aLiberalism
650			_a Mill,John Stuart
650			_aOxdford
650			_a Suphocles
650			_aSpinoza Benedict de
650			_aToryism
650			_aWordsworth, William
650			_aVictorian age
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