Essays on Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was an English Victorian poet and literary and social critic, noted especially for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners of the “Barbarians” (the aristocracy), the “Philistines” (the commercial middle class), and the “Populace. ” He became the apostle of “culture”...

Published in 1867, Matthew Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach’ is short lyrical elegy that depicts a couple overlooking the English Channel, questioning the gradual, steady loss of faith of the time. Set against this backdrop of a society’s crisis of faith, Arnold artfully uses a range of...

In the beginning of the poem, “Dover Beach”, Mathew Arnold starts with the line “The sea is calm tonight”. This is a simple but strong affirmation and it can give us some information about the poem. He is giving significance to the sea and how...

Progress is manifest destiny. Progress is civilizing the uncivilized, elevating the inhabitants of the third world and taming the “savages” that live off the land. Though progress may seem superficially as beneficial to society, it is occasionally viewed as the abandonment of many ideals, inevitably...

The English Writer, Matthew Arnold, tends to define ‘Culture’ based on his advocating towards ‘high culture’. In his point of view, what could be defined as culture must be well created based on thoughtful process and creativity like a piece of refined ‘Art’ as it...

Arnold was born in 1822 December 24 and was the eldest son of Thomas Arnold. Thomas was appointed headmaster of Rugby School in 1828 and Matthew entered Rugby in 1837 and then attended Oxford as a scholar of Balliol College. He won the Newdigate Prize...