Matthew Arnold (Matthew) was an English Victorian Era poet and critic. He was educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Mr. Arnold has a lucid style and is abreast of the thought of his age. He may be said in his own words to wander "between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born."
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...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Go to Quote / Comment
"Fenced early in this cloistral round Of reverie, of shade, of prayer,... Go to Quote / Comment
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. Go to Quote / Comment
Once pass'd I blindfold here, at any hour, Now seldom come I, since I came with him.... Go to Quote / Comment
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. Go to Quote / Comment