Selected Poems & Prose
by Matthew Arnold


This selection of poems and prose is invaluable in showing the "unity in diversity" of Arnold's creative intelligence, which probed in powerful lyrics the maladies of the modern condition. These poems join here with provocative essays on education, society, and religion, including his major central work, "The Study of Poetry," to provide a unique introduction to one of the
the major critics of the eighteenth century.
Published by Heinemann Educational Books (first published 1939)


Everyman Library 1978/1993, papperback,




Selected Poems & Prose (Everyman's Library (Paper)) Paperback – November 15, 1993

by Matthew Arnold (Author)
Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes.


 

Matthew Arnold was also one of the most important literary critics of his age. From 1857 to 1867 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford; during this time he wrote his first books of criticism, including On Translating Homer (1861), Essays in Criticism (1865; Ser. 2, 1888), and On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867). In Culture and Anarchy (1869) and Friendship's Garland (1871) he widened his field to include social criticism.


Culture and Anarchy (1869) and Friendship's Garland (1871) 兩書都有翻譯本

Sweetness and light - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chapter 1. Sweetness and Light

... readers of the Victorian Web this chapter from Arnold's Culture and Anarchy..... The euphyÕs is the man who tends towards sweetness and light; the aphyÕs ...

友誼的花環北京: 中國文學出版社 2000

《友誼的花環》書前介紹是一本隨筆作品集，后面卻又說成一部書信体小說，書中又將essay 翻譯成論文....由於本書翻譯幾乎未附原文 書中太多街名人名等等 使人迷糊....

"著者為英國人馬修·阿諾德。此書中作者虛构了一位主人公阿米紐斯·特容赫男爵，作者借阿米紐斯之口表達了自己對民主、革命、戰爭等諸多社會問題的看法。"

Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888

• Wikipedia
• Celtic Literature (English)
• Culture and Anarchy (English)
• Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems (English)
• Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold (English)

One can by no means pass over Arnold's humor in a discussion of his
style, yet humor is certainly a secondary matter with him, in spite of
the frequency of its appearance. It is not much found in his more
intimate and personal writing, his poetry and his familiar letters. In
such a book as _Friendship's Garland_, where it is most in evidence, it
is plainly a literary weapon deliberately assumed. In fact, Arnold is
almost too conscious of the value of humor in the gentle warfare in
which he had enlisted. Its most frequent form is that of playful satire;
it is the product of keen wit and sane mind, and it is always directed
toward some serious purpose, rarely, if ever, existing as an end in
itself.

Asgaard - Manibus Date Lilia Plenis lyrics

But it's not the end of existence
In the mirror of a night
The shadow of our rapture
Give me your hand
We will collect the jewels of a night, together...

The tops of devilish conceptions
Ran with scarlet of evil
In the arms of sadness, tear comes to the world
She bore the path of dreams
In ravishing dance
We waste our lives
But...
Is it worth to be devoid of passions?

Love...
Only love lets us touch the essence of existence
Rapture is its beginning
The end...?
I believe it can last forever
Like flower proudly blossom in the
Embraces of everlasting desires