Matthew Arnold

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
General Editor’s Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
 I......Page 14
 II......Page 18
 III......Page 21
 IV......Page 24
 V......Page 27
 VI......Page 29
 VII Poems (1869) AND THE 1870s......Page 32
 VIII THE 1880s......Page 36
 IX THE 1890s......Page 39
 X A NOTE ON THE LATER REPUTATION......Page 42
 NOTES......Page 44
 Note on the Text......Page 46
 1. Charles Kingsley, unsigned review, Fraser’s Magazine......Page 47
 2. W.E.Aytoun, unsigned review, Blackwood’s Magazine......Page 52
 3. W.M.Rossetti, review, Germ......Page 59
 4. G.D.Boyle, unsigned review, North British Review......Page 69
 5. A.H.Clough, ‘Recent English Poetry’, North American Review......Page 72
  I......Page 78
  II......Page 83
 7. J.A.Froude, unsigned review, Westminster Review......Page 85
 8. J.D.Coleridge, unsigned review, Christian Remembrancer......Page 94
 9. Coventry Patmore, unsigned review, North British Review......Page 108
 10. Arnold in response to his critics......Page 116
 11. George Eliot, unsigned review, Westminster Review......Page 119
  (a) Unsigned notice in the English Review, March 1850......Page 121
  (c) Arnold to Clough in November 1853......Page 122
  (d) Harriet Martineau in the Daily News, 26 December 1853......Page 123
  (e) W.R.Roscoe in the Prospective Review, February 1854......Page 125
  (f) Charles Kingsley in Fraser’s Magazine, February 1854......Page 126
  (g) D.G.Rossetti in a letter to William Allingham, 1855......Page 127
 13. ‘J.C.’ (John Conington?), review, Fraser’s Magazine......Page 128
  (a) From the Saturday Review, 2 January 1858......Page 137
  (b) George Lewes in the Leader, 30 January 1858......Page 138
  (c) W.R.Roscoe in the National Review, April 1858......Page 139
  (d) John Nichols in Undergraduate Papers, 1858......Page 140
 15. Leslie Stephen (?), review, Saturday Review......Page 142
 16. A.C.Swinburne, review, Fortnightly Review......Page 146
 17. Isidore G.Ascher, review, St. James’s Magazine......Page 166
 18. H.B.Forman, an attack on Arnold, Tinsley’s Magazine......Page 170
 19. Alfred Austin, on Arnold’s poetic characteristics, Temple Bar......Page 179
  (a) From the Spectator, 7 September 1867......Page 185
  (b) ‘Shirley’ [Sir John Skelton] in Fraser’s Magazine, November 1869......Page 186
 21. R.H.Hutton, ‘The Poetry of Matthew Arnold’, British Quarterly Review......Page 188
 22. H.G.Hewlett, ‘The Poems of Matthew Arnold’, Contemporary Review......Page 206
 23. Anonymous reviewer on Poems (1877), Saturday Review......Page 225
 24. J.B.Brown, from ‘Modern Creeds and Modern Poetry’, Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern Poetry......Page 231
  (a) William LeSueur in the Canadian Monthly, March 1872......Page 233
  (c) Edmund Stedman in Victorian Poets, 1876......Page 234
  (d) From the Spectator, 1 July, 1877......Page 235
  (e) From the Contemporary Review, January 1878......Page 236
  (g) Oscar Wilde in a letter to Helena Sickert, 2 October 1879......Page 237
 26. Walt Whitman, ‘Our Eminent Visitors’, Critic (New York)......Page 238
 27. Henry James on Arnold’s importance, English Illustrated Magazine......Page 241
 28. W.E.Henley’s appreciation, Athenaeum......Page 250
 29. Edward Clodd, ‘Matthew Arnold’s Poetry’, Gentleman’s Magazine......Page 253
 30. Joseph Jacobs, obituary notice, Athenaeum......Page 265
 31. Frederic Myers, obituary, Fortnightly Review......Page 268
 32. H.D.Traill, obituary, Contemporary Review......Page 273
 33. Mowbray Morris, unsigned essay, Quarterly Review......Page 281
 34. Rowland Prothero on Arnold’s poetic career, Edinburgh Review......Page 292
 35. Edward Dowden on Arnold as poet, Atalanta......Page 319
  (a) C.E.Tyrer in the Manchester Quarterly, January 1883......Page 326
  (b) Anonymous critic on ‘The Poetry of Despair’, London Quarterly Review, April 1885......Page 327
  (c) Anonymous critic on ‘The Poet of Elegy’, Spectator, 18 July 1885......Page 328
  (d) Richard Le Gallienne’s commemorative poem in the Academy, 21 April 1888......Page 329
  (e) Vida Scudder: an American view in the Andover Review, September 1888......Page 330
  (g) Charles Eliot Norton in Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1888......Page 331
 37. Lionel Johnson on Poetical Works (1891), Academy......Page 332
 38. Mrs Oliphant, ‘Of the Younger Poets’, The Victorian Age of English Literature......Page 337
 39. George Saintsbury, ‘Corrected Impressions’, Collected Essays and Papers......Page 340
 40. Hugh Walker, ‘Matthew Arnold’, The Greater Victorian Poets......Page 346
 41. Frederic Harrison’s assessment of Arnold, Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates......Page 361
  (a) Lionel Johnson’s commemorative ‘Laleham’, from the Century Guild Hobby Horse, 1890......Page 369
  (c) Edmund Gosse in the English Illustrated Magazine, July 1897......Page 371
  (d) W.M.Dixon, from In the Republic of Letters, 1898......Page 372
Bibliography......Page 373
 I. ARNOLD’S WRITINGS......Page 387
 II. ARNOLD: TOPICS AND CHARACTERISTICS......Page 388
 III. GENERAL......Page 389