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
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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
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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