Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnoldwas an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1822
high quick soon thou wilt
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? / Soon will the high midsummer pomps come on.
names medicine doctors
Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
life-is obscure
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
borne casual clearly deeply fruit insight light nor vague whose
Light half-believers of our casual creeds, who never deeply felt, nor clearly will d, whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, whose vague resolves never have been fulfilled.
parts past three
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
english-poet finds loses resolve
Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
english-poet finds loses resolve
Resolve to be thyself; and know that who finds himself, loses his misery.
genius seems sphere
It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.
attic glory life mellow saw
Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole: / The mellow glory of the Attic stage.
enjoyed lived small
It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.
english-poet perfection
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
morality religion simply touched
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
swans long geese
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
mississippi falsehood
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods