Comprehensive information about Matthew Arnold including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. 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." This educational Matthew Arnold resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. Go to Quote / Comment
With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return All we have built as we discern. Go to Quote / Comment
I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. Go to Quote / Comment
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. Go to Quote / Comment
The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits;— Go to Quote / Comment