Matthew Arnold: 48 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: This 1867 collection of lectures influenced the Irish literary revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Arnold characterizes the Celtic genius as fanciful and poetic, and argues that its contributions to the English national character have been overlooked or underestimated.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Published in 1870, this volume contains the essays "St. Paul and Protestantism," "Puritanism and the Church of England," "Modern Dissent," and "A Comment on Christmas."...

Published in 1885, this collection of Arnold’s public addresses given during his 1883-84 American tour consists of "Numbers: or the Majority and the Remnant," "Literature and Science," and "Emerson," in which he judges Emerson as a mediocre poet and philosopher but nevertheless places him among the "most distinctly and honourably American of your writers."

“At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.” In this towering 1875 work, Arnold grapples with the problem of finding religious meaning in a scientific age.

This 1867 collection of lectures influenced the Irish literary revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Arnold characterizes the Celtic genius as fanciful and poetic, and argues that its contributions to the English national character have been overlooked or underestimated.

Published in 1869, two years after passage of the Reform Bill, this collection of essays is perhaps its author’s most topical critical work. Arnold defines Culture as “the best which has been thought and said” and argues that, during a time of great social change and potential upheaval, the masses...

Published in 1870, this volume contains the essays "St. Paul and Protestantism," "Puritanism and the Church of England," "Modern Dissent," and "A Comment on Christmas."  "Hardly, perhaps," wrote Arnold, "can there be at present attempted a more beneficial service to religion, than the true criticism of this great and misunderstood author."

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Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at narrative poetry through the eyes and minds of our most...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: " ...]the scenes of his existence ... and in his family affections. A nature warm to its own, kindly to all, cheerful, fond of sport and fun, and always fed from pure fountains, and with it a character...

     Yes;—and yet at the close of that administration of Eubulus came the collapse, and the end of Athens as an independent State. And it was to the fault of Athens herself that the collapse was owing. Plato was right after all; the majority were bad, and the remnant were impotent.      So...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at narrative poetry through the eyes and minds of our most...