Matthew Arnold: The Poet as Humanist

by George Robert Stange

Book Overview

Arnold is among the most inaccessible of 19th-century poets, a fact of which he himself was well aware. Asking a great deal of his readers, he expected them to share his remote excitements and to follow his complicated intellectual processes. This study of Arnold's major poetic ideas defines their philosophical backgrounds through close and sustained reading of many individual poems. Professor Stange finds that Arnold organized his examination of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691060738
• ISBN13: 9780691060736
• Release Date: March 1967
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.