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Matthew Arnold: The Poet as Humanist
By (Author) George Robert Stange
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.8
Hardback
312
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
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