The literary criticism of Matthew Arnold : letters to Clough, the 1853 preface, and some essays / Flemming Olsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olsen, Flemming, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888--Criticism and interpretation.

Arnold, Matthew.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eastbourne, England : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.

Summary:

Many of the ideas that appear in poet Matthew Arnold's Preface to the Poems of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Literature was, in Arnold's perception, meant to communicate a message rather than impress by its structure or by formal sophistication. Modern theories of coalescence between content and form were outside the contemporary paradigm. T. S. Eliot's ambivalent attitude to Arnold-at once reluctantly admiring and decidedly patronizing-is puzzling. Eliot never seemed able to liberate him

Contents:

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Wordsworth; Coleridge; Shelley; Leigh Hunt; Chapter One: The Intellectual Landscape of the Mid-VictorianAge; Chapter Two: The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough; Chapter Three: The Preface of 1853; Summary; Subject; The Poet''s Task; Creation; Models: Classics, Moderns, Shakespeare, Representation, Parts and Wholes; Form, Clough, Carlyle; Concluding Remarks; Chapter Four: Influences: Goethe, Sainte-Beuve ; Goethe; Sainte-Beuve; Chapter Five: The Schools Inspector and Essay Writer; The Essays; Science; Eliot

Chapter Six: Arnold as a Literary CriticThe Function of Criticism at the Present Time; Terminological Vagueness; Maurice de Guérin; Concluding Remarks; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78284-168-7

OCLC:

887094259