The complete online text of Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold.

The most characteristic work of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) deals with the difficulty of preserving personal values in a world drastically transformed by industrialism, science, and democracy. Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham...

A master of both poetry and prose, Matthew Arnold remains significant today for the same reasons that the Victorian age as a whole retains significance. The Victorians—Arnold chief among them—struggled with issues that confront us more than a...

Among the major Victorian writers sharing in a revival of interest and respect in the second half of the twentieth century, Matthew Arnold is unique in that his reputation rests equally upon his poetry and his prose. Only a quarter of his productive life...

By Peter Berresford Ellis. (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. Pp. 288. $25.00.) Peter Berresford Ellis has written a rather silly book about women in Celtic societies. What is it about the fields of Celtic Studies and the history of...

The Celtic West and Europe: Studies in Celtic Literature and the Early Irish Church. By Doris Edel. (Dublin: Four Courts Press. Distributed in the U.S.A. by ISBS, Portland, Oregon. 2001. Pp. 320. $65.00.) This book consists of a collection of Doris Edel's papers...