Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

A selective bibliography for Matthew Arnold, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages


An Short Explanation of Matthew Arnold's Editions


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Literary Criticism

Alexander, Edward. "Dr. Arnold, Matthew Arnold, and the Jews." Alexander examines the two Arnolds' views about Victorian political efforts to grant voting rights to British Jews. Judaism, Spring 2002

Babbitt, Irving. "Matthew Arnold." Influential American cultural critic writes: "Arnold was misunderstood by his contemporaries, not because he was less modern, but because he was more modern than they, and that he is still misunderstood for the same reason." The Nation, 1917

Crick, Brian. "Matthew Arnold's Place in the University." New Compass: A Critical Review, Dec. 2004

Ebel, Henry. "Matthew Arnold and Marcus Aurelius." On the central importance of the Stoic emperor and his times to Matthew Arnold's thought. First page of article only. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 3, No. 4, Nineteenth Century (Autumn, 1963), pp. 555-566

Farrell, John P. "What I Want the Reader to See: Action and Performance in Arnold's Prose." Also "'What You Feel I Share': Breaking the Dialogue of the Mind with Itself."

Farrell, John P. "Matthew Arnold: The Writer as Touchstone." From Victorian Poetry, 1988 Spring-Summer; 26 (1-2): 1-10

Gossman, Lionel. "Philhellenism and antisemitism: Matthew Arnold and his German models." Comparative Literature, Winter 1994

Harrison, Anthony. Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology (Univ. of Virginia Press, 1998). Publisher's blurb

Honan, Park. A review of Honan's Matthew Arnold: A Life (McGraw Hill, 1981), the first major biography of Arnold since Hugh Kingsmill's Matthew Arnold in 1928. Reviewed in Theology Today by Jeffrey Spear

Jones, Tod E. "Matthew Arnold and the Jesus Seminar." Jones contends that Matthew Arnold's writing about the bible best reveals his strength as a critic. Paper presented at the Annual Central NY Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY-Cortland, October 1997

Lang, Cecil Y., ed. The Letters of Matthew Arnold, Vol. 1-Vol. 6 (Univ. of Va. Press). Information from the publisher

Mazzeno, Laurence W. Matthew Arnold: The Critical Legacy (Boydell & Brewer, 1999). Most of the book is reprinted, Google Books

Rapple, Brendan A. "Matthew Arnold and the role of the State." Contemporary Review, March, 2002

Savory, Jerold J. "Matthew Arnold and 'The Author of Supernatural Religion': The Background to God and the Bible." First page of article only. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 16, No. 4, Nineteenth Century (Autumn, 1976), pp. 677-691

Shumaker, Wayne. "Matthew Arnold's Humanism: Literature as a Criticism of Life." First page of article only. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 2, No. 4, Nineteenth Century (Autumn, 1962), pp. 385-402

Wallace, Jennifer. A substantial introduction to Matthew Arnold from the Literary Encyclopedia, 7/7/01

Ward, David A. "Transformed religion: Matthew Arnold and the refining of dissent." Renascence, Winter 2001


Introductory, overview, unsigned material

Extended article on Matthew Arnold's themes, reputation, and career. From the Poetry Foundation

Essays on Matthew Arnold's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background. The Victorian Web by Professor George P. Landow

Very brief introduction to Matthew Arnold's poetry from the Academy of American Poets

Lakshmi, S. N. Radhika. "Matthew Arnold as a Literary Critic." An introductory essay on Matthew Arnold from the London School of Journalism Distance Learning Course

A posting of "Dover Beach" inviting reader comments, which are appended at the end. The poem elicited some surprisingly passionate responses

A substantial, though older, discussion of Arnold's major and minor works and a biography, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes(1907-21). Early poems; Strayed Reveler; theory of poetry; Sohrab and Rustum; later poems; qualities of poetry; Essays in Criticism; Celtic Literature; Culture and Anarchy

A guide to research resources from the Victoria discussion list for Victorian Studies

Harper's Magazine has articles on Matthew Anrold available online, for subscribers, that go back to 1864



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