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Tag: Matthew Arnold

241. (Davie, Auerbach, Arnold)

A friend of mine pointed out that semi-recent posts on decorum are a bit of a muddle and that I … More

decorum, Donald Davie, Erich Auerbach, Matthew Arnold, Platonism

239. (Matthew Arnold)

Matthew Arnold suggests how a thoroughgoing Platonism might help us think through art, criticism, and more: “the application of ideas … More

Criticism, Matthew Arnold, plato, Samuel Johnson, William Empson

238. (Matthew Arnold)

One of Matthew Arnold’s most famous, or infamous, phrases as a critic comes in “The Study of Poetry” where he … More

Hermogenes, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, rhetoric

176. (Robert Burns)

It’s difficult to know what to do with Robert Burns, besides read and enjoy him, and take fortification from him; … More

Christopher Ricks, Donald Davie, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Romanticism, Samuel Johnson, Scottish Literature, Thom Gunn, William Empson

139. (Matthew Arnold)

Showing, earlier this week, some poems I’d written to a critic I admire and trust, I received back some critical … More

Matthew Arnold, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, Victorian Poetry

77. (R.H. Hutton)

One of the chief differences between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voices of critical prose is that the former wrote for the … More

Carlyle, Dickens, George Eliot, Julia Wedgwood, Literary Criticism, Matthew Arnold, R.H. Hutton, Tennyson, Victorian Literature, Victorian Poetry, Victorians

76. (Robert Burns)

“Now Burns loses prodigiously by translation.” Thus Hopkins in a letter to Robert Bridges. Though prejudiced against the Scots, Hopkins … More

Dialect, Dialect Poetry, Eighteenth-Century Poetry, Hopkins, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Robert Burns, Scots, Victorians

52. (Matthew Arnold)

Born this day, December 24, in 1822, Matthew Arnold would have today celebrated his one hundredth and ninety second birthday, … More

Ambiguity, Matthew Arnold, Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Shelley, T.S. Eliot, Vagueness, Victorian Poetry

22. (John Dryden)

I was mostly in my right mind when I blustered, a few years ago, that John Dryden was among the … More

Donald Davie, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Dryden, John Jones, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, Religio Laici, T.S. Eliot, Virgil, Wallace Stevens, Wordsworth
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