MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822- 1888)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Letters.  Ed. Cecil Y. Lang.  1996-.

  • The Poems of Matthew Arnold.  Ed. Kenneth Allott.  2d ed.  Ed. Miriam Allott.  1979.

  • Ed. Christopher Ricks.  1972.

  • Selected Poems and Prose.  Ed. Denys Thompson.  London: Heinemann, 1971.

  • Ed. P. J. Keating.  1970.

  • Selected Essays.  Ed. Noel Annan.  Oxford: OUP, 1964.

  • Poetry and Prose.  Ed. John Bryson.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1963.

  • Ed. A. Dwight Culler.  1961.

  • Complete Prose Works.  11 Vols.  Ed. R. H. Super.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1960-1977.

  • The Note-Books of Matthew Arnold.  Ed. Howard Foster Lowry, Karl Young, and Waldo Hilary Dunn.  1952.

  • The Portable Matthew Arnold.  Ed. Lionel Trilling.  New York: Viking, 1949.

  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough.  Ed. Howard Foster Lowry.  1932.

  • Unpublished Letters of Matthew Arnold.  Ed. Arnold Whitridge.  1923.

  • Works.  15 Vols.  1903-104.

  • Letters, 1848-1888.  Ed. George W. E. Russell.  2 vols.  1895.

  • Essays in Criticism.  London: Macmillan.

    • First and Second Series.  Ed. G. K. Chesterton.  London: Dent, 1964.

    • Ed. S. R. Littlewood. London: Macmillan, 1958

    • Second Series, 1888. 

    • First Series.  1865. 

• Edited Works:

  • The Poems of William Wordsworth.  1879.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Discourses in America.  1885.

  • "The Study of Poetry."  Introduction to The English Poets.  Ed. T. H. Ward.  1880. 

    • Essays in Criticism.  Ed. Chesterton.  235-260.

    • Criticism: the Major Statements.  New York: St. Martin's, 1980.

     3rd Ed. edited by Charles Kaplan and William Anderson, 1991.  357-380.

    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.  603-607.

  • Literature and Dogma.  1873.

  • Friendship’s Garland.  1871.

  • Culture and Anarchy: an Essay in Political and Social Criticism.  Cornhill Magazine (1867-1868).  1869. 

    • Ed. Ian Gregor.  Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971.

    • "Sweetness and Light." 

      • Prose of the Victorian Period.  ed. William E. Buckler.  Boston: Houghton Migglin, .  457-476. 

      • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  825-832.

    • "Hebraism and Hellenism." 

      • Prose of the Victorian Period.  ed. William E. Buckler.  Boston: Houghton Migglin, .  457-476.  476-486.

  • On the Study of Celtic Literature.  1867.

  • "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time."  National Review.  1864. 

    • Essays in Criticism.  Ed. Chesterton.  9-34. 

    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch.  New York: Norton, 2001.  806-825.

    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.  592-603.

  • On Translating Homer.  1861.

  • "Preface."  Poems.  1853. 

    • Critical Theory Since Plato.  Ed. Hazard Adams.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.  586-592.

On-Line:

• Archives:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Culture and Anarchy (1882):

    • Irvine Version

    • UTEL Version

    • Victorian Web Version

  • "The Study of Poetry" (1880):

    • Bartleby.Com Version

    • Classic Authors Version

  • "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (1864):

    • University of Toronto Version

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:
• Selected Individual Works:
  • Arac, Jonathan.  "Matthew Arnold and English Studies: the Power of Prophecy."  Critical Genealogies: Historical Situations for Postmodern Literary Studies.  New York: Columbia UP, 1987.  117-138.

  • Brown, E. K.  Arnold: a Study in Conflict.  1948.

  • Bush, Douglas.  Matthew Arnold: a Survey of his Poetry and Prose.  1971.

  • Buckley, Vincent.  Poetry and Morality: Studies on the Criticism of Matthew Arnold.  1959.

  • Carroll, Joseph.  The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold.  1982.

  • Colini, Stefan.  Arnold.  1988.

  • Coulling, Sidney.  Matthew Arnold and his Critics: a Study of Arnold's Controversies.  1974.

  • Culler, A. Dwight.  Imaginative Reason: the Poetry of Matthew Arnold .  1966.

  • Dawson, Carl, and John Pfordresher, eds.  Matthew Arnold--Prose Writings: the Critical heritage.,  1979.

  • DeLaura, David J.  Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater.  1969.

  • DeLaura, David J.  "Arnold and Carlyle."  PMLA 79 (1964): .

  • Eels, J. S.  the Touchstones of Matthew Arnold.  1955.

  • Eliot, T. S.  "The Function of Criticism."  Selected Essays.  1932; 3rd ed., 1950.

  • Gottfried, Leon.  Matthew Arnold and the Romantics.  1963.

  • Hamilton, Ian.  A Gift Imprisoned: the Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold.  1999.

  • Harland, Richard.  "Matthew Arnold."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  87-90.

  • Hartman, Geoffrey H.  Criticism in the Wilderness: the Study of Literature Today.  1980.

  • Holloway, John. The Victorian Sage: Studies in Argument.  1953.

  • Honan, Park.  Matthew Arnold: a Life.  1981.

  • James, D. G.  Matthew Arnold and the Decline of English Romanticism.  1961.

  • James, Henry.  "Matthew Arnold."  Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers.  Ed. Leon Edel and Mark Wilson.  1984.

  • Leavis, F. R.  "Arnold as Critic."  Scrutiny 7 (1938): .

  • Madden, William A.  Matthew Arnold: a Study of the Aesthetic Temperament in Victorian England.  1967.

  • Murray, Nicholas.  A Life of Matthew Arnold.  1995.

  • Perkins, David.  "Arnold and the Function of Literature."  ELH 18 (1951): 287-309.

  • Riede, David G.  Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language.  1988.

  • Robert, Ruth.  Matthew Arnold and God.  1983.

  • Robbins, William.  The Ethical Idealism of Matthew Arnold.  1959.

  • Roper, Alan.  Arnold's Poetic Landscapes.  1969.

  • Said, Edward.  The World, the text and the Critic.  1983.

  • Sherman, Stuart P.  Matthew Arnold: How to Know Him. 

  • Stange, G. Robert.  Matthew Arnold: the Poet as Humanist.  1967.

  • Trilling, Lionel.  Matthew Arnold.  1939.

  • Walcott, Fred G.  The Origins of Culture and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold and Popular Education in England.  1970.

  • Willey, Basil.  "Matthew Arnold."  Nineteenth Century Studies: Coleridge to Matthew Arnold.  New York: Columbia UP, 1949.  251-284.

  • Williams, Raymond.  Culture and Society, 1780-1950.  1958.

  • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "The Arnoldian Prophecy."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  432-453.

On-Line:

• Carroll, Joseph: Matthew Arnold (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism)

• Lakshmi, S. N. Radhika: Matthew Arnold as a Literary Critic

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Matthew Arnold

WWW GATEWAYS

• UTEL: Matthew Arnold Page

• Victorian Web: Matthew Arnold: an Overview

PHILWEB was last updated: June 04, 2009

PHILWEB is edited by Richard L. W. Clarke

Please direct all queries HERE

This site will always be a work in progress as a result of which pages will be found at various stages of completion.