Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold (Laleham, Middlesex 1822 – Liverpool 1888) foi un poeta e crítico inglés.
Mathhew Arnold traballou como inspector de escolas de 1851 a 1883 e estudou os problemas do ensino. De 1857 a 1867 ocupou a cátedra de poesía en Oxford.
Arnold escribiu durante a época vitoriana e compartiu a reacción contra o materialismo da sociedade burguesa. Algúns consideran a súa poesía unha ponte entre o romanticismo e o modernismo: O seu uso de paisaxes simbólicas son típicas do romanticismo, mentres que a súa mirada negativa cara todo é máis típica do modernismo, así como a tendencia racionalista. A súa poesía é de ton elexíaco, en contrastre cos seus intentos de representación crítica. Nos ensaios afirmou os valores éticos da literatura e os estéticos da relixión.
[editar] Obras
[editar] Poesía
- Alaric at Rome: A Prize Poem (1840)
- Cromwell: A Prize Poem (1843)
- The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849)
- Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852, 1900)
- Poems: A New Edition (1853)
- Poems: Second Series (1855)
- Merope: A Tragedy (1858)
- New Poems (1867)
- A Matthew Arnold Birthday Book (1883)
[editar] Ensaio e prosa
- England and the Italian Question (1859)
- The Popular Education of France, with Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland (1861)
- On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford (1861)
- On Translating Homer: Last Words: A Lecture Given at Oxford (1862)
- Heinrich Heine (1863)
- A French Eton; or, Middle Class Education and the State (1864)
- Essays in Criticism (1865)
- Schools and Universities on the Continent (1867)
- On the Modern Element in Literature (1869)
- Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism (1869)
- A Bible-Reading for Schools: The Great Prophecy of Israel's Restoration (1872)
- Literature and Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible (1873)
- Higher Schools and Universities in Germany (1874)
- God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to "Literature and Dogma" (1875)
- Isaiah XLLXVI; with the Shorter Prophecies Allied to It (1875)
- Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877)
- The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," with Macaulay's "Life of Johnson," (1878)
- Mixed Essays (1879)
- The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History (1879)
- Poems of Wordsworth (1879)
- The Study of Poetry (1880)
- Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs by Edmund Burke (1881)
- Poetry of Byron (Herausgeber, 1881)
- Irish Essays, and Others (1882)
- Culture and Anarchy (1883)
- Discourses in America (1885)
