• Matthew Arnold's grave at All Saints' Church, Laleham, Surrey. In 1865, Arnold published Essays in Criticism: First Series.
  • Matthew Arnold's work deals with the difficulty of preserving personal values in a world drastically transformed by industrialism, science, and democracy.
  • In Literature and Dogma, Matthew Arnold contends that words in religious texts can have ambiguous, “literary” interpretations or factual, “scientific” ones.
  • Matthew Arnold was an English Victorian poet and literary and social critic, noted especially for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and...
  • Late in life, in 1883 and 1886, Arnold made two lecturing tours of the United States. Matthew Arnold died in Liverpool in 1888.
  • In 1852, Matthew Arnold published his second collection of poems, ‘Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems’. It was also a nonstarter with only fifty copies being sold.
  • Matthew Arnold Born in 1822, poet Matthew Arnold is considered one of the major writers of the Victorian era.
  • Matthew Arnold (1822-88) is best-remembered as a poet, although very few of his poems remain widely known. ‘Dover Beach’ is the most famous of these.
  • Among the major Victorian writers, Matthew Arnold is unique in that his reputation rests equally upon his poetry and his poetry criticism.
  • Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools.