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Matthew Arnold
Birth date: December 24, 1822
Died: April 15, 1888
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BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it 8 years ago
But what is greatness?— culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy was an odd book to come back to in t...
Edward
Edward rated it 9 years ago
AbbreviationsIntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Matthew Arnold--Culture and AnarchyAppendix: Henry Sidgwick, 'The Prophet of Culture'Explanatory Notes
Allusion is not Illusion
Allusion is not Illusion rated it 23 years ago
Reason -- "Sweetness and Light" -- Culture -- Perfection -- for Arnold these terms are nearly synonymous, and all underlie the same central claim: the cause of disorder is both identifiable and curable. Arnold's goal here is not to propose a specific program of reform but, as he says in Democracy, t...
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