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2 M.A.English Literary Criticism and Critical Approaches- I Course Code: MAE 601 Semester: First e-Lesson: 7 SLM Unit: 9 www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) https://www.google.com/search?q=Greek+theatre All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD 33 OBJECTIVES INTRODUCTION Student will be introduced to Matthew Arnold’s In this unit the student will be able to Biography understand Arnold’s Literary criticism Student will be introduced to Arnold’s views on Student will be able to understand Arnold’s prose and poetry views on poetry Student will be introduced to Matthew Arnold’s criticism on poetry Student will also be able to understand Arnold’s The Study of Poetry www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) INSTITUTE OF DAIlSlTAriNgChEt aArNeDreOsNeLrvINeEd LwEiAthRNCIUN-GIDOL

TOPICS TO BE COVERED 4 Matthew Arnold : Biography Matthew Arnold : Literary Career Matthew Arnold : As A Critic & As A Poet Matthew Arnold : The Study of Poetry www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

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MATTHEW ARNOLD : BIOGRAPHY 6 Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD : LITERARY CAREER 7 In 1852, Arnold published his second volume of poems, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. In 1853, he published Poems: A New Edition, a selection from the two earlier volumes famously excluding Empedocles on Etna, but adding new poems, “Sohrab and Rustum” and “The Scholar Gipsy”. In 1854, Poems: Second Series appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem, “Balder Dead”. www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD : LITERARY CAREER 8 Matthew Arnold was one of the foremost poets and critics of the 19th century. While often regarded as the father of modern literary criticism, he also wrote extensively on social and cultural issues, religion, and education. Arnold was born into an influential English family—his father was a famed headmaster at Rugby—and graduated from Balliol College, Oxford. He began his career as a school inspector, traveling throughout much of England on the newly built railway system. When he was elected professor of poetry at Oxford in 1857, he was the first in the post to deliver his lectures in English rather than Latin. www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD : THE STUDY OF POETRY 9 Classic Essays: Matthew Arnold's 'The ... mumblewords.net www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD : THE STUDY OF HIS 10 POETRY Perhaps Arnold’s most famous piece of literary criticism is his essay “The Study of Poetry.” In this work, Arnold is fundamentally concerned with poetry’s “high destiny;” he believes that “mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us” as science and philosophy will eventually prove flimsy and unstable. Arnold’s essay thus concerns itself with articulating a “high standard” and “strict judgment” in order to avoid the fallacy of valuing certain poems (and poets) too highly, and lays out a method for discerning only the best and therefore “classic” poets (as distinct from the description of writers of the ancient world). www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD : THE STUDY OF HIS 11 POETRY Arnold’s classic poets include Milton, Shakespeare, Dante, and Homer; and the passages he presents from each are intended to show how their poetry is timeless and moving. For Arnold, feeling and sincerity are paramount, as is the seriousness of subject: “The superior character of truth and seriousness, in the matter and substance of the best poetry, is inseparable from the superiority of diction and movement marking its style and manner.” An example of an indispensable poet who falls short of Arnold’s “classic” designation is Geoffrey Chaucer, who, Arnold states, ultimately lacks the “high seriousness” of classic poets. Classic Essays: Matthew Arnold's 'The ... mumblewords.net www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD : THE STUDY OF POETRY 12 Arnold is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning The mood of Arnold’s poetry tends to be of plaintive reflection, and he is restrained in expressing emotion. He felt that poetry should be the criticism of life and express a philosophy. Arnold’s philosophy is that true happiness comes from within, and that people should seek within themselves for good, while being resigned in acceptance of outward things and avoiding the pointless turmoil of the world. www.cuidol.in Classic Essays: Matthew Arnold's 'The ... All right are reserved with CU-IDOL mumblewords.net Unit-9 (MAE601)

MATTHEW ARNOLD : PROSE 13 Arnolds career as a prose writer divided into three phases: 1. Early literary criticism that begins with his preface to the 1853 edition of his poems and ends with the first series of Essays in Criticism (1865) 2. A prolonged middle period (overlapping the first and third phases) characterized by social, political and religious writing (roughly 1860–1875) 3. A return to literary criticism with the selecting and editing of collections of Wordsworth’s and Byron’s poetry and the second series of Essays in Criticism. Classic Essays: Matthew Arnold's 'The ... mumblewords.net www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

MATTHEW ARNOLD : AS A POET & A CRITIC 14 Double role as a poet — Arnold is a sick individual in a sick society. As a prose writer, he is a healer of a sick society. He puts the hope in middle class and predicts that the world of the future would be a middle-class world. As a poet, he usually records his own experiences, his own Classic Essays: Matthew Arnold's feelings of loneliness and isolation as a lover, his longing for a 'The ... serenity that he cannot find, his melancholy sense of the passing mumblewords.net of youth All right are reserved with CU-IDOL www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601)

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS 15 1. What was Matthew Arnold was born? c) 1820 a) 1822 d) 1824 b) 1826 2. When did Matthew Arnold die? c) 1880 a) 1890 d) 1888 b) 1885 3. On what issues does Matthew Arnold address his readers? a) Literary issues c) Life Problems b) Main issues d) Contemporary Social Issues 4.Who was Matthew Arnold? a) A Poet & Playwright c) A Poet b) A Poet and A Novelist d) A Poet & A Critic Answers: 1.a) 2. d) 3. d) 4. d) www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

SUMMARY 16 Arnold is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning The mood of Arnold’s poetry tends to be of plaintive reflection, and he is restrained in expressing emotion. He felt that poetry should be the criticism of life and express a philosophy. Arnold’s philosophy is that true happiness comes from within, and that people should seek within themselves for good, while being resigned in acceptance of outward things and avoiding the pointless turmoil of the world. www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 18 1.QWhat does Matthew Arnold say in his The Study FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions ... of Poetry? All right are reserved with CU-IDOL 2. Q “Poetry is the criticism of life, governed by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty”: Discuss.? 3. Q What is the function of poetry according to Arnold?? 4. Q Describe Arnold's idea that ''poetry is the criticism of life'‘ 5. Q Elucidate Arnold’s views on good poetry as “the superior character of truth and seriousness, in the matter and substance of the best poetry, is inseparable from the superiority of diction and movement marking its style and manner” with reference his essay The Study of Poetry. www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601)

REFERENCES 19 David Daiches : Critical Approaches to Literature, 2nd ed., Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2001. M. H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms, Singapore: Harcourt Asia Pvt. Ltd., 2000. Rene Wellek : A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950, Vols. I-IV, London: Jonathan Cape, 1958. M.A.R. Habib : A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present, Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Patricia Waugh : Literary Theory & Criticism: An Oxford Guide, Delhi: OUP, 2006. M.S. Nagarajan : English Literary Criticism & Theory: An Introductory History, Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2006. www.cuidol.in Unit-9 (MAE601) All right are reserved with CU-IDOL

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