Matthew Arnold: The Poet as Humanist

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Matthew Arnold: The Poet as Humanist
Authors and Contributors      By (author) George Robert Stange
SeriesPrinceton Legacy Library
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:312
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreLiterary studies - c 1800 to c 1900
Literary studies - poetry and poets
ISBN/Barcode 9780691623382
ClassificationsDewey:821.8
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 8 December 2015
Publication Country United States

Description

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 sustain