(2) Dwight Culler, Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of
Matthew Arnold (New Haven, Conn.: Yale Univ.
Boynton's '"Things that are outside ourselves': Ethnology, Colonialism, and the Ontological Critique of Capitalism in
Matthew Arnold's Criticism."
And here
Matthew Arnold finds a model for the marriage of poetry to experience in the aftermath of profound disillusion.
Graham Moore, director of P2 Technologies, said: "We are delighted to be working with
Matthew Arnold and Baldwin.
In a sense, Quart is a descendant of a tradition begun in the mid-19th century by Marx and Engels on the left and
Matthew Arnold on the right, the soi-disant voice in the moral wilderness excoriating the base appetites of an emerging commercial culture.
The Barfield of Diener's study is a young intellectual wrestling not with original and final participation, polarity, logomorphism, chronological snobbery, the Residue of Unresolved Positivism (RUP), and the evolution of consciousness but with economic issues, the nature of consumption, contemporary manifestations of philosophical dualism, the future of leisure,
Matthew Arnold's concept of culture, Lost Generation pessimism, industrial development, advertising, and the promise of technology.
Trilling thought he detected the same expectations in the great liberal writers of nineteenth-century Britain, such as John Stuart Mill and
Matthew Arnold, with whom he began his career as a college professor and literary critic.
Dulack's two acts of sophisticated banter--garnished with references to
Matthew Arnold, Buddenbrooks and Albania as "the next Cote D'Azur"--resemble a "blend of The Misanthrope and Art, with maybe some Alan Ayckbourn thrown in," in Mooy's words.
Eavan Boland spoke with real horror of
Matthew Arnold's idea that poetry would substitute for religion in an age of unbelief, as if poetry were bound to behave like the Catholic Church given half a chance.
As faith receded--like the waves in
Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach"--society suffered what William James, in The Will to Believe, called "the sick shudder of frustrated religious demand." This demand was responsible, Wilson argues, for religion's recovery in the twentieth century.
"This far exceeded our expectations," says
Matthew Arnold, senior vice president and chief operating officer of World Resources.
Set against scenes like these, in which physical assault serves as a metaphor for removing the threat posed by religious Dissent to the Victorian body politic--by the simple means of force and exclusion--the calm and civility that
Matthew Arnold exhibits in his famous comments on Dissenters in Culture and Anarchy (1869) present, to say the least, a sharp contrast.