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
happy outside rage sound storms took troubled
He went; his piping took a troubled sound / Of storms that rage outside our happy ground.
bears ruin seed
He bears the seed of ruin in himself.
age born fell
Gray, a born poet, fell upon an age of reason.
beating beautiful indeed life luminous poetry vain void wings
In his poetry as well as in his life Shelley was indeed 'a beautiful and ineffectual angel', beating in the void his luminous wings in vain
acting adequately chance class diligence educated either experience express fully great interest itself matter men nearer provide society supposed sure therefore understand wants
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.
parts past three
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
children yesterday
Children dear, was it yesterday / (Call yet once) that she went away?
coins face free lives people
You will be out of the lives of free people everywhere. Your face will be off the coins and with that, your arrogant, undue influence. Everywhere. ... Everywhere. .. Every. ...
bustle pole possess sights soul
And see all sights from pole to pole, / And glance, and nod, and bustle by; / And never once possess our soul / Before we die.
emotion heart less quick spring
The heart less bounding at emotion new, / The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
blood class passionate
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
inward genius done
It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.
heart granted thee
To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
latin character greek
The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.