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The literary criticism of Matthew Arnold : letters to Clough, the 1853 preface, and some essays
- Title
- The literary criticism of Matthew Arnold : letters to Clough, the 1853 preface, and some essays / Flemming Olsen.
- Author
- Olsen, Flemming.
- Publication
- Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
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- Description
- viii, 86 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Many of the ideas that appear in Arnold's Preface of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arnold wrote to his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Analysis of the Preface reveals a poet who found a theoretical basis for poetry (by which he means literature in general) in the dramas of the Greek tragedians, particularly Sophocles: action is stressed as an indispensable ingredient, wholes are preferred to parts, the didactic function of literature is promoted - in short, the Preface reads like the recipe for a classical tragedy. It is a young poet's attempt to establish criteria for what poetry ought to be. He found the Romantic idiom outworn. Literature was, in Arnold's perception, meant to communicate a message rather than impress by its structure or by formal sophistication. Modern theories of coalescence between content and form were outside the contemporary paradigm. T. S. Eliot's ambivalent attitude to Arnold - now reluctantly admiring, now decidedly patronizing - is puzzling. Eliot never seemed able to liberate himself from the influence of Arnold. What in Arnold's critical oeuvre attracted and at the same time repelled Eliot? That question has led an in-depth analysis of Arnold as a literary critic"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-83) and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-4828
- ISBN
- 9781845197100 (paperback)
- 1845197100 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2014023169
- OCLC
- 889941137
- Author
- Olsen, Flemming.
- Title
- The literary criticism of Matthew Arnold : letters to Clough, the 1853 preface, and some essays / Flemming Olsen.
- Publisher
- Brighton ; Chicago : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-83) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-4828