The complete online text of Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold 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...

IN HIS poem, "Rugby Chapel", Matthew Arnold remembered his father as "a mighty oak". His father, Thomas Arnold, immortalised in the novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays" and in Lytton Strachey's portrait in "Eminent Victorians", is probably the most famous English public-school headmaster. He was...

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