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Criticism Present Thought Culture Mathew Arnold Poet Critic

Front Mathew Arnold
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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