Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a poet and critic who advocated for disinterested criticism and defined culture as the pursuit of "total perfection" through broad knowledge.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a poet and critic who viewed criticism as disinterested thought applicable beyond literature. He advocated culture as the pursuit of perfection through knowledge.
| Front | Mathew Arnold |
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| Back | 1822-88 poet, critic, and educational administrator his poetry is frequently informed by alienation, stoicism, despair, and spiritual emotionless in his the Function of Criticism at the present time, he develops his view of criticism as a disinterested and flexible mode of thought of application far beyond literature in his Culture and Anarchy 1869, culture recommended as the great help out of our present difficulties and defined us as the pursuit of total perfection by means of getting to know on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world |
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