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MATTHEW ARNOLD Literary Lives General Editor: Richard Dutton, Professor of English Lancaster University This series offers stimulating accounts of the literary careers of the most admired and influential English-language authors. Volumes follow the outline of writers' working lives, not in the spirit of traditional biography, but aiming to trace the professional, publishing and social contexts which shaped their writing. A list of the published titles in this series follows overleaf Published titles Morris Beja John Mepham JAMES JOYCE VIRGINIA WOOLF Cedric C. Brown Michael O'Neill JOHN MILTON PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Peter Davison Leonee Ormond GEORGE ORWELL ALFRED TENNYSON Richard Button Harold Pagliaro WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HENRY FIELDING Jan Fergus George Parfitt JANE AUSTEN JOHN DONNE James Gibson Gerald Roberts THOMAS HARDY GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS Kenneth Graham Felicity Rosslyn HENRY JAMES ALEXANDER POPE Paul Hammond Tony Sharpe JOHN DRYDEN T. S. ELIOT W. David Kay Grahame Smith BEN JONSON CHARLES DICKENS Mary Lago Gary Waller E. M. FORSTER EDMUND SPENSER Alasdair D. F. Macrae Cedric Watts W. B. YEATS JOSEPH CONRAD Joseph McMinn John Williams JONATHAN SWIFT WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Kerry McSweeney Tom Winnifrith and Edward Chitham GEORGE ELIOT CHARLOTTE AND EMILY BRONTE Clinton Machann John Worthen MATTHEW ARNOLD D. H. LAWRENCE Matthew Arnold A Literary Life Clinton Machann Professor of English Texas A&M University © Clinton Machann 1998 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 0-333-63376-8 hardcover ISBN 0-333-63377-6 paperback A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10 9 8 7 6 54 3 21 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 Printed in Hong Kong Published in the United States of America 1998 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 0-312-21031-0 In memoriam Robert H. Super (1914-96) Contents Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources ix Preface xi 1 Juvenilia 1 2 The Strayed Reveller (1849), Empedocles on Etna (1852), Poems (1853) 11 3 Poems, Second Series (1854), Merope (1857), On Translating Homer (1861), The Popular Education of France (1861) 40 4 Essays in Criticism (1865), New Poems (1867) 55 5 Culture and Anarchy (1869), Friendship's Garland (1871) 77 6 St Paul and Protestantism (1870), Literature and Dogma (1873), God and the Bible (1875), Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877) 100 7 Mixed Essays (1879), Irish Essays (1882), Discourses in America (1885), Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888) 126 Conclusion 160 Suggestions for Further Reading 162 Notes and References 163 Index of References to Arnold's Works 167 General Index 171 vn Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Sources The following abbreviations have been used throughout this volume to indicate editions of Arnold's works and frequently cited secondary sources. All quotations from poems are taken from P. CPW Arnold, Matthew, The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, ed. R. H. Super. 11 vols (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960-77). LMA Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888, ed. George W. E. Russell, 2 vols1 (New York and London: Macmillan, 1895). MAAL Honan, Park, Matthew Arnold: A Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983).2 MAB Buckler, William E. (ed.), Matthew Arnold's Books: Toward a Publishing Diary (Geneva: Droz, 1958). MAHC Coulling, Sidney, Matthew Arnold and His Critics: A Study of Arnold's Controversies (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1974). MAP Matthew Arnold: The Poetry. The Critical Heritage, ed. Carl Dawson (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), 1973. MAPW Matthew Arnold: Prose Writings. The Critical Heritage, ed. Carl Dawson and John Pfordresher (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul), 1979. P Arnold, Matthew, The Poems of Matthew Arnold, ed. Kenneth Allott, 2nd edn, revised by Marian Allott (London: Longmans, 1979). SL Arnold, Matthew. Selected Letters of Matthew Arnold, ed. Clinton Machann and Forrest D. Burt (London: Macmillan, 1993). IX
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