1. Matthew Arnold

2. Born:24-Dec-1822Birthplace:EnglandDied:15-Apr-1888Location of death:Liverpool, EnglandCause of death: Heart FailureRemains: England Occupation:Poet, Critic, Educator Literary period: Victorian Nationality: England

3. Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essays, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) began his career as a poet, winning early recognition as a student at the Rugby School where his father, Thomas Arnold, had earned national acclaim as a strict and innovative headmaster.

4. Matthew Arnold was a major Victorian poet, the principal English literary critic of his generation, an important commentator on society and culture, and an effective government official.

5. His works: -Arnold is considered the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred Tennyson, and Robert Browning. - In 1852, Arnold published his volume of poems, Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. -In 1853, he published Poems: A New Edition, a selection from the two earlier volumes famously excluding "Empedocles on Etna", but adding new poems, "Sohrab and Rustum" and "The Scholar-Gipsy". -In 1854, Poems: Second Series appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem, "Balder Dead". -Arnold was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857. -In 1867, he wrote his poem "Dover Beach" which represents religious ideas.

6. In his poetry Arnold often expressed the sadness of living in an age in which what one loved most was in jeopardy.

7. In his poetry he derived not only the subject matter of his narrative poems from various traditional or literary sources but even much of the romantic melancholy of his earlier poems from Senancour's Obermann. His greatest defects as a poet stem from his lack of ear and his frequent failure to distinguish between poetry

8. Matthew Arnold wants to represent the main movement of mind of Victorian age . he wants to gain more understanding of mind especially after the new development which declare during his time in science. Such developments make him really confuse and doubtful. Therefore he wrote many poems which were less than Tennyson in sentiments and than Browing in abundance.

9. His most famous critical dictum is that poetry is a "criticism of life." What he seems to have meant is that poetry is the crowning fruit of a criticism of life; that just as the poet's metrical effects are and must be the result of a thousand semi-conscious generalizations upon the laws of cause and effect in metric art

10. , so the beautiful things he says about life and the beautiful pictures he paints of life are the result of his generalizations upon life as he passes through it, and consequently that the value of his poetry consists in the beauty and the truth of his generalizations.

11. Matthew Arnold died in Liverpool in 1888

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