1st Edition

Matthew Arnold The Critical Heritage Volume 1 Prose Writings

Edited By Carl Dawson, John Pfordresher Copyright 1996
476 Pages
by Routledge

476 Pages
by Routledge

476 Pages
by Routledge

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range... Read more
Chapter 1 On Translating Homer (1861) and Homer: Last Words (1862); Chapter 2 Essays in Criticism, First Series (1865); Chapter 3 On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867); Chapter 4 Schools and Universities on the Continent (1868); Chapter 5 Culture and Anarchy (1869); Chapter 6 Friendship’s Garland (1871); Chapter 7 St. Paul and Protestantism (1870); Chapter 8 Literature and Dogma (1873); Chapter 9 God and the Bible (1875) and Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877); Chapter 10 Arnold in the 1870s; Chapter 11 The Last Decade; Chapter 12 1888–1900: Arnold as Man of Letters;

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Carl Dawson, John Pfordresher