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Matthew Arnold (Matthew) was an English Victorian Era poet and critic. He was educated at Winchester, Rugby, and Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize. In 1857 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Mr. Arnold has a lucid style and is abreast of the thought of his age. He may be said in his own words to wander "between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born."
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. Go to Quote / Comment
Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Go to Quote / Comment
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. Go to Quote / Comment
Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again. Go to Quote / Comment
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men Go to Quote / Comment