Matthew Arnold

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.

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 Guerin; 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.

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Lusitania; From The Poems of Wordsworth (1879); Preface; From The Hundred Greatest Men (1879); Poetry: Introduction; From The English Poets, ed.

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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