| The more tragic the situation, the deeper becomes the enjoyment; and the situation is more tragic in proportion as it becomes more terrible. |
| —Author’s Preface, 1853. |
| Matthew Arnold |
Matthew Arnold
Title: Matthew Arnold
Author: Arnold, Matthew
Works
The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867
While Arnold’s place among the great Victorian authors was solidified by his prose, his verse represents a bridge to the Modern era. The Study of Poetry
Example of Arnold’s prose criticism. Bartlett’s Arnold Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett. Arnold Similes
Anthologized Verse
Dover Beach; Dover Beach; From “Balder Dead”; From “Empedocles on Etna”; From ‘Empedocles on Aetna’; From “Sohrab and Rustum”; Geist’s Grave; Memorial Verses; Memorial Verses; Philomela; Philomela; The Buried Life; From ‘The Buried Life’; The Forsaken Merman; Forsaken Merman; The Forsaken Merman; The World and the Quietist; Written in Emerson’s Essays; From the Hymn of Empedocles; Requiescat; Requiescat; Scholar-Gipsy; Shakespeare; Shakespeare; Song of Callicles; The Song of Callicles; To Marguerite; To Marguerite; Rugby Chapel; The Better Part; Worldly Place; The Last Word; Progress; From ‘Lines Written in Kensington Gardens’
Writings About Arnold, Matthew
“Matthew Arnold”
Chapter sections by W. Lewis Jones with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.