Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold

Flemming Olsen

earliest edition we have, 2014 Sussex Academic Press, 2014

"Many of the ideas that appear in Arnold's Preface of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Analysis of the Preface reveals a poet who found a theoretical basis for poetry (by which he means literature in general) in the dramas of the Greek tragedians, particularly Sophocles: action is stressed as an indispensable ingre...

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Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold edition · 2014 · Sussex Academic Press · 9781322046914
Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold edition · 2014 · Sussex Academic Press · 9781782841661
Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold edition · 2014 · Sussex Academic Press · 86 pages · 9781845197100
Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold edition · 2014 · Sussex Academic Press · 9781782841685
Literary Criticism of Matthew Arnold edition · 2014 · Sussex Academic Press · 9781782841678

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