Arnold is among the most inaccessible of 19th-century poets, a fact of which he himself was well aware. This study of Arnold’s major poetic ideas defines their philosophical backgrounds through close and sustained reading of many individual poems.
George Robert Stange Matthew Arnold (Paperback) Princeton Legacy Library
Author: George Robert Stange. This study of Arnold’s major poetic ideas defines their philosophical backgrounds through close and sustained reading of many individual poems. Professor Stange finds that Arnold organized his examination of life around these central ideas: poetry, nature, self, and love.