matthew arnold

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a British writer and poet, famous for his poems such as Dover Beach and The Scholar Gypsy, as well as for his books and essays discussing literature and society (1822-88). born Dec. 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, Eng. died April 15, 1888, Liverpool English poet and literary and social critic. Son of the educator Thomas Arnold, he attended Oxford and then worked as an inspector of schools for the rest of his life. His verse includes "Dover Beach," his most celebrated work; "Sohrab and Rustum," a romantic epic; and "The Scholar Gipsy" and "Thyrsis." Culture and Anarchy (1869), his central work of criticism, is a masterpiece of ridicule as well as a searching analysis of Victorian society. In a later essay, "The Study of Poetry," he argued that, in an age of crumbling creeds, poetry would replace religion and that therefore readers would have to understand how to distinguish the best poetry from the inferior

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Arnold Matthew

{i} (1822-1888) English poet and literary critic

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Mat·thew Ar·nold

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mäthyu ärnıld

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/ˈmaᴛʜyo͞o ˈärnəld/ /ˈmæθjuː ˈɑːrnəld/