Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnoldwas an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1822
book wish poor
But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
nature writing hands
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
culture bishops reason
There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."
art knowledge toppings
Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
law criticism poetic
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
world force ready
Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
class world earth
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.
beautiful heart garden
Beautiful city! . . . spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age . . . her ineffable charm. . . . Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic!
god law tendencies
For science, God is simply the stream of tendency by which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.
patience despair neighbour
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
life men world
To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
time men rivers
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
time healing europe
Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
sight soul hustle
And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.