The Atlantic

Matthew Arnold as a Poet

MR. ARNOLD’S life has been so quiet and so exclusively literary that his history, so far as it concerns the world, is almost comprised in the history of his works. He was born December 24, 1822, at ...
The Atlantic

Matthew Arnold in His Letters

WE are not to have an authoritative Life of Matthew Arnold, and it cannot be said that we need one, after we have been let into the history of his mind through his published writings, and of his heart ...
JSTOR Daily

Why the Oxus? On the Majestic River of Arnold’s ‘Sohrab and Rustum’

The Review of English Studies, New Series, Vol. 69, No. 289 (APRIL 2018), pp. 316-335 (20 pages) This essay is an examination of the structural significance of the river Oxus in Matthew Arnold’s ...
The New Criterion

Dreaming spires? Arnold’s Oxford

Matthew Arnold is responsible for two of the most celebrated remarks ever made about Oxford. One is the phrase “city of dreaming spires”—actually “that sweet City with her dreaming spires,” in his ...