Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold : Letters to Clough, the 1853 Preface, and Some Essays.
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 rat...
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Table of 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.