Author:Matthew Arnold

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Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

An English poet and cultural critic. This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Articles written by this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "M. A."

Matthew Arnold

Works

Poetry

• The strayed reveller, and other poems (1849, as "A.") [1]
• Sohrab and Rustrum and Other Poems

Early Poems

• Sonnets (1849)
  • Quiet Work
  • To a Friend
  • Shakespeare
  • Written in Emerson's Essays
  • Written in Butler's Sermons
  • To the Duke of Wellington
  • In Harmony with Nature
  • To George Cruikshank
  • To a Republican Friend
  • Religious Isolation

• Mycerinus (1849)
• The Church of Brou (1853)
• A Modern Sappho (1849)
• Requiescat (1853)
• Youth and Calm (Lines written by a Death-Bed) (1852)
• A memory-picture (1849)
• A Dream (1853)
• The New Sirens (1849)
• The Voice (1849)
• Youth’s Agitations (1852)
• The World’s Triumphs (1852)
• Stagirius (1849)
• Human Life (1852)
• To a Gipsy Child by the Sea-shore (1849)
• A Question (to Fausta) (1849)
• In Utrumque Paratus) (1849)
• The World and the Quietist) (1849)
• Horatian Echo) (1887)
• The Second Best (1852)
• Consolation (1852)
• Resignation (1849)

Narrative Poems

• Sohrab and Rustum (1853, loosely based on Shah Nameh)
• The Sick King in Bokhara (1849)
• Balder Dead (1855)
• Tristram and Iseult (1852)
• St. Brandan (1860)
• The Neckan (1853)
• The Forsaken Merman (1849)

Sonnets (1867)

• Austerity of Poetry
• A Picture at Newstead
• Rachel I
• Rachel II
• Rachel III
• Worldly Place
• East London
• West London
• East and West
• The Better Part
• The Divinity
• Immortality
• The Good Shepherd with the Kid
• Monica’s Last Prayer

Lyric Poems

• Switzerland (1852)
• The Strayed Reveller (1849)
• Fragment of an 'Antigone' (1849)
• Fragment of a Chorus of a 'Dejaneira' (1867)
• Early Death and Fame (1867)
• Philomela (1853)
• Urania (Excuse) (1852)
• Euphrosyne (Indifference) (1852)
• Calais Sands (1867)
• Faded Leaves (1852)
• Despondency (1852)
• Self-deception (1852)
• Dover Beach (1867)
• Growing Old (1867)
• The Progress of Poesy (1867)
• New Rome (1873)
• Pis-Aller (1867)
• The Last Word (1867)
• The Lord’s Messengers (1860)
• A Nameless Epitaph (1867)
• Bacchanalia (The New Age) (1867)
• Epilogue to Lessing’s Laocoon (1867)
• Persistency of Poetry (1867)
• A Caution to Poets (1867)
• The Youth of Nature (1852)
• The Youth of Man (1852)
• Palladium (1867)
• Progress (1852)
• Revolutions (1852)
• Self-dependence (1852)
• Morality (1852)
• A Summer Night (1852)
• The Buried Life (1852)
• Lines Written in Kensington Gardens (1852)
• A Wish (1867)
• The Future (1852)

Elegiac Poems

• The Scholar-Gipsy (1853)
• Thyrsis (1866)
• Memorial Verses (1850)
• Stanzas in Memory of Edward Quillinan (1853)
• Stanzas from Carnac (1867)
• A Southern Night (1861)
• Haworth Churchyard (1855)
• Epilogue (1877)
• Rugby Chapel (1867)
• Heine’s Grave (1867)
• Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)
• Stanzas in Memory of the Author of Obermann (1852)
• Obermann Once More (1867)

Dramatic Poems

• Merope: A Tragedy (1858)
• Empedocles on Etna (1852)

Later Poems

• Westminster Abbey (1882)
• Geist's Grave (1881)
• Poor Matthias (1882)
• Kaiser Dead (1887)

Cancelled and Uncollected Poems

• Alaric at Rome (1840)
• Cromwell (1843)
• The Hayswater Boat (1849)
• Sonnet to the Hungarian Nation (1849)
• Destiny (1852)
• Courage (1852)
• Thekla's Answer (From Schiller)
• Below the Surface-Stream (1869)
• Rome-sickness (1879)
• S. S. Lusitania (1879)

Prose

• On Translating Homer (1861 and 1862)
• On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867)
• Essays in Celtic Literature (1868)
• Essays in Celtic Literature 2nd Series (1888)
• Culture and Anarchy (1869)
• St. Paul and Protestantism (1870)
• Friendship's Garland (1871)
• Literature and Dogma (1873)
• God and the Bible (1875)
• The Study of Celtic Literature (1891, the "Popular Edition" of On the Study of Celtic Literature)

Articles

• Civilization in the United States, first published in Nineteenth Century (~1888)
• “Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

Articles in The Popular Science Monthly Project

• 1. “Literature and Science,” in Popular Science Monthly Volume 21, October 1882

Works about Arnold

• “Arnold, Matthew” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• Matthew Arnold (The Century Magazine, April 1894:931-37)
• Matthew Arnold: A later estimate, from the point of view of one who knew him well (Lippincott's Monthly, December 1909:670-74)
• "Matthew Arnold" in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873.
• Template:Men of the Time link
• “Arnold, Matthew,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.

References

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.