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9 unusual facts about Matthew Arnold


Democratic education

As English aristocracy was giving way to democracy, Matthew Arnold investigated popular education in France and other countries to determine what form of education suited a democratic age.

Edward Hornor Coates

One of their guests was literary and social critic Matthew Arnold, whom they would host during his stays in Philadelphia.

Florence Earle Coates

Literary and social critic Matthew Arnold both encouraged and inspired Mrs. Coates' writing of poetry.

Kenneth Allott

Kenneth Allott (1912–1973) was an Anglo-Irish poet and academic, and authority on Matthew Arnold.

Kennington, Oxfordshire

The two exceptions are the new houses at the site of the former public house The Scholar Gypsy (named after the local poet, Matthew Arnold) and flats on the site of the former Kennington Service Station.

Looking for X

Tammy also makes her memorize the poem The Buried Life by Matthew Arnold and recite it.

Menkaure

Menkaure was the subject of a poem by the nineteenth century English poet Matthew Arnold, entitled "Mycerinus".

South Hinksey

Pedestrian and cycle access to the village from Oxford is via the Devil's Backbone; a historic raised pathway across the neighbouring flood plains that features in Matthew Arnold's poem The Scholar Gipsy.

Walter Künneth

To imagine Dogma to be what Matthew Arnold took it to be, the Aberglaube, or added Belief above and beyond the Facts, would be to imprison Christianity forever within the continuum of space and time, which for Künneth, is subject to uncertainty and mortality and subjectivity.


Craig Raine

His friend Ian McEwan argues that Raine espouses "very strong and clear, almost Arnoldian, ideas of literature and criticism".

Culture and Anarchy

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869.

Don Cupitt

"Dover Beach", a 19th-century poem by Matthew Arnold which includes the metaphor of "the Sea of Faith"

Edward Quillinan

"All who know him," says Southey, writing in 1830, "are very much attached to him." "Nowhere," says Johnston, speaking of his correspondence during his wife's hopeless illness, "has the writer of this memoir ever seen letters more distinctly marked by manly sense, combined with almost feminine tenderness." Matthew Arnold in his Stanzas in Memory of Edward Quillinan, speaks of him as "a man unspoil'd, sweet, generous, and humane."

Thomas Arnold

They had five daughters and five sons, including the poet Matthew Arnold, the literary scholar Tom, and the author William Delafield Arnold.


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