BIBLIOGRAPHY

Tollers, Vincent L., ed. A Bibliography of Matthew Arnold, 1932-1970. University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1974, 172 p.

Compiles primary and secondary sources on Arnold's poetry and prose writings. Coverage of secondary sources is limited to 1932-1970.

BIOGRAPHIES

Honan, Park. Matthew Arnold: A Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983, 496 p.

Definitive biography aimed at both Arnold specialists and general readers.

Rowse, A. L. Matthew Arnold: Poet and Prophet. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976, 208 p.

Comprehensive biography.

Trilling, Lionel. Matthew Arnold. New York: Norton, 1939, 465 p.

A sympathetic and insightful analysis of Arnold's life and literary career.

CRITICISM

Allott, Miriam. “‘Both/And’ or ‘Either/Or’?: Arnold's Mind in Dialogue with Itself.” In The Arnoldian 15, No. 1 (Winter 1987-88): 1-16.

Assesses the formal and aesthetic implications of Arnold's juxtaposition of differing or opposing ideas that shapes his work.

apRoberts, Ruth. Arnold and God. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1983, 299 p.

Study of Arnold's writings on religion and the Bible, emphasizing their integral relation with his poetry and critical essays.

Bell, Bill. “The Function of Arnold at the Present Time.” In Essays in Criticism 47, No. 3 (July 1997): 203-19.

Surveys recent scholarly appropriations of Arnold's literary and cultural criticism.

Buckler, William E. Matthew Arnold's Prose: Three Essays in Literary Enlargement. New York: AMS Press, 1983, 116 p.

Three essays on Arnold's literary criticism that seek to increase the reader's understanding of the author by showing how his critical effectiveness is dependant upon his literary art.

Bush, Douglas. Matthew Arnold: A Survey of His Poetry and Prose. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1971, 202 p.

Traces the “main lines and attitudes” of Arnold's career, reflected in his works.

Carroll, Joseph. The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982, 275 p.

Analysis of Arnold's theories on culture and religion, asserting that his critical importance arises from “his own sense that literary theory must not be isolated from other types of knowledge.”

Corr, Chris. “Matthew Arnold and the Younger Yeats: The Manoeuvrings of Cultural Aesthetics.” In Irish University Review 28, No. 1 (Spring/Summer 1998): 11-27.

Focuses on Arnold's “pervasive influence” on Yeats' views in literary criticism.

Dawson, Carl, ed. Matthew Arnold: The Poetry. The Critical Heritage Series, edited by B. C. Southam. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973, 466 p.

A comprehensive compilation of critical commentary written on Arnold's poetry between 1849 and 1900. In addition, the editor's introduction provides a concise overview of critical reaction to the poetry.

Dawson, Carl and Pfordresher, John, eds. Matthew Arnold: Prose Writings. The Critical Heritage Series, edited by B. C. Southam. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979, 458 p.

A companion to Matthew Arnold: The Poetry providing a thorough selection of critical commentary written on Arnold's prose between 1861 and 1899. The volume also contains an introductory overview of the criticism.

Dickstein, Morris. “Cultural Criticism: Matthew Arnold and Beyond.” In Double Agent: The Critic and Society, pp. 8-34. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Discusses Arnold's influential blending of literary and social criticism.

Eliot, George [pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans]. Westminster Review n.s. LXIV, No. VII (July 1855): 297-99.

A brief commentary on Poems, Second Series. Eliot finds Arnold's earlier poems superior to those in his second collection, and, while she praises the powerful effect of Arnold's verse, she considers his rhythm flawed.

Fulweiler, Howard W. “Literature or Dogma: Matthew Arnold as Demythologizer.” In The Arnoldian 15, No. 1 (Winter 1987-88): 37-47.

Considers Arnold's thought on the relative importance of literature and religious doctrine in modern society.

Gooder, Jean. “Matthew Arnold and the Idea of the Modern.” In Cambridge Quarterly 24, No. 1 (1995): 1-16.

Discusses Arnold's views on cultural progress and education.

Gottfried, Leon. Matthew Arnold and the Romantics. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963, 277 p.

Explores and evaluates the full range of Arnold's reaction to the major Romantic poets.

Grob, Alan. “The Poetry of Pessimism: Arnold's ‘Resignation’.” In Victorian Poetry 26, Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1988): 25-44.

Argues that Arnold's poem “Resignation” is the first and possibly the fullest example of metaphysical pessimism in nineteenth-century English poetry.

Madden, William A. Matthew Arnold: A Study of the Aesthetic Temperament in Victorian England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967, 242 p.

Contextualizes Arnold's position in the debate that accompanied the emergence of aesthetic consciousness in England.

Miller, J. Hillis. “Matthew Arnold.” In his The Disappearance of God, pp. 212-69. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press, 1963.

An approach to Arnold's poetry and poetic theory as a reflection of the nineteenth-century's struggle with godlessness.

Mulhern, Francis. “Culture and Authority.” In Critical Quarterly 37, No. 1 (Spring 1995): 77-89.

Argues that Arnold's linking of culture and criticism remains a vital resource for contemporary society.

Phillips, Jerry. “Culture, the Academy, and the Police: Or Reading Matthew Arnold in ‘Our Present Unsettled State’.” In College Literature, 25, No. 3 (Fall 1998): 109-32.

Evaluates “the contemporary ideological significance of the Arnoldian tradition” with specific reference to commodification, education, and state authority.

Raleigh, John Henry. Matthew Arnold and American Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957.

Explores Arnold's critical influence in the United States.

Riquelme, J. P. “Aesthetic Values and Processes in Eliot, Arnold, and the Romantics.” In T. S. Eliot: Man and Poet, edited by Laura Cowan, pp. 277-301. Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1990.

Analyzes Eliot's modernist engagement with Arnold and the Romantic poets.

Stange, G. Robert. Matthew Arnold: The Poet as Humanist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967, 300 p.

Thematic discussion of Arnold's poetry.

Thorpe, Michael. Matthew Arnold. London: Evans Brothers, 1969, 176 p.

Biographical and critical overview of Arnold's literary career, placing it within the context of Arnold's own time.

Additional coverage of Arnold's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-Studied Authors and Poets; Poetry Criticism, Vol. 5; and World Literature Criticism, 1500 to the Present.