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Matthew Arnold è stato un poeta, critico letterario e educatore britannico.

Era figlio di Thomas Arnold, famoso rettore della Rugby School, e fratello di Tom Arnold, docente di letteratura e di William Delafield Arnold, scrittore e funzionario coloniale.

Nel periodo 1847-51 lavorò come segretario di Lord Landsdowne, poi fu ispettore scolastico, viaggiando spesso per visitare scuole inglesi e non, e per vedere come fossero organizzate e come migliorarne l'insegnamento .

Nel 1851 sposò Fanny Lucy Wightman con la quale ebbe sei figli, di cui solo tre gli sopravvissero.

Nel 1857 fu eletto Professor of Poetry dell'Università di Oxford, dove fu il primo a usare l'inglese anziché il latino durante le proprie conferenze. Venne confermato nel mandato successivo .

Come critico letterario, si distinse per il tentativo di reinserire l'individuo all'interno della società e il letterato nell'ambito della tradizione.

A partire dalle Lives of the Poets di Samuel Johnson, per cui fece una scelta e una prefazione importante, anche dove non fosse d'accordo con lui, Arnold fornì con generosità e intelligenza tutta una serie di valutazioni ed espressioni alla critica letteraria del suo tempo. Promuovendo una cultura europea comune, accusò la cultura inglese di essere provinciale, principalmente con gli "Essays and Criticism" , che furono apprezzati da diversi lettori soprattutto dopo la sua morte .

Alcuni suoi scritti, per lo più pubblicati su giornali come "Cornhill" e "Fortnightly Review" e solo dopo raccolti in volumi, si occuparono anche dei problemi sociali e religiosi, come nel caso di Culture and Anarchy , nel quale l'autore assegnò alla cultura il compito di infrangere gli steccati che separavano le varie classi sociali, con un fondo di ottimismo a proposito dello sviluppo dell'umanità in quanto organismo.

In saggi successivi, come Literature and Dogma e God and the Bible , Arnold identificò la poesia come un possibile sostituto sia della religione sia della metafisica.Una delle sue formule critiche più fortunate fu quella di evidenziare l'amalgama di coscienza morale ebraica e intelligenza ellenistica che stanno alla base della cultura occidentale, essendo religione e poesia, ovvero "cuore e immaginazione" le due matrici della "moralità toccata da emozione" ovvero la poesia quale mezzo di trasmissione dell'esperienza spirituale.

Il suo magistero critico, con maggiore o minore fedeltà, ha collaborato a creare il punto di vista generale sulla funzione della cultura in critici come Lionel Trilling, Northrop Frye o Harold Bloom, o per le pagine critiche di Oscar Wilde, George Santayana e di T.S. Eliot, tra tutti forse il debitore più grato.

La sua produzione poetica, da qualcuno ritenuta tra le più importanti del periodo vittoriano inglese, fu caratterizzata da opere di ampio respiro, quali Tristram and Iseult , le tragedie Empedocles on Etna e Merope e da composizioni brevi come il sonetto Shakespeare , The Forsaken Merman .

Famosa è la sua poesia Dover Beach , sulla cittadina inglese che era porto verso la Francia e l'Europa. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Dicembre 1822 – 15. Aprile 1888
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Matthew Arnold frasi celebri

“La ricerca della perfezione allora, è la ricerca della dolcezza e della luce.”

Matthew Arnold

da Sweetness and Light, Ch. I

“Dispersi per il vasto deserto delle acque
Noi mortali viviamo a milioni in solitudine.”

Matthew Arnold

(da To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis (1852), stanza 1)
Dotting the shoreless watery wild, | We mortal millions live alone.

“E dimentichiamo perché dobbiamo, e non perché vogliamo.”

Matthew Arnold

da Absence (1857), st. 3

“La verità siede sulle labbra degli uomini morenti.”

Matthew Arnold

da Sohrab and Rustum, 656

“Triste pazienza, vicina troppo prossima della disperazione.”

Matthew Arnold

da The Scholar-Gypsy, 1, 195

“Un uomo che conosce solo la Bibbia non conosce nemmeno la Bibbia.”

Matthew Arnold

da Culture and Anarchy, 5

Matthew Arnold: Frasi in inglese

“Ah! two desires toss about
The poet's feverish blood;
One drives him to the world without,
And one to solitude.”

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Matthew Arnold

"Stanzas in Memory of the Author of "Obermann"" (1852), st. 24

“How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves!
Again — thou hearest?
Eternal passion!
Eternal pain!”

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Matthew Arnold

"Philomela" (1853), st. 3

“Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.”

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Matthew Arnold

The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)

“Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side? — nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tübingen. Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines! home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!”

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Matthew Arnold

Preface to the Second Edition (1869)
Essays in Criticism (1865)

“This is the aim of the following essay: to show that, when we come to put the right construction on the Bible, we give to the Bible a real experimental basis, and keep on this basis throughout; instead of any basis of unverifiable assumption to start with, followed by a string of other unverifiable assumptions of the like kind, such as the received theology necessitates.
And this aim we cannot seek without coming in sight of another aim, too, which we have often and often pointed out, and tried to recommend: culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”

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Matthew Arnold

Preface
Literature and Dogma (1873)

“Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Culture and Anarchy

Origine: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. III, Barbarians, Philistines, Populace

“Style…is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.”

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" On the Study of Celtic Literature http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/scl/index.htm" (1867), Pt. 6

“All are before me! I behold
The House, the Brotherhood austere!
— And what am I, that I am here? For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire,
Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
What dost thou in this living tomb?”

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Matthew Arnold

Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

“The day in his hotness,
The strife with the palm;
The night in her silence,
The stars in their calm.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Empedocles on Etna

Act II
Empedocles on Etna (1852)

“One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Culture and Anarchy

Preface, 1st Ed
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

“So, loath to suffer mute.
We, peopling the void air,
Make Gods to whom to impute
The ills we ought to bear.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Empedocles on Etna

Act I, sc. ii
Empedocles on Etna (1852)

“Culture is then properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Culture and Anarchy

Origine: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light

“The Celts certainly have it in a wonderful measure.”

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Matthew Arnold

Referring to style, in On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867), Pt. 6

“Therefore to thee it was given
Many to save with thyself;
And, at the end of thy day,
O faithful shepherd! to come,
Bringing thy sheep in thy hand.”

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Matthew Arnold

St. 9
Rugby Chapel (1867)

“What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.”

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" Civilization in the United States http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=ArnCivi.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=all" (1888)

“Charge once more, then, and be dumb!
Let the victors, when they come,
When the forts of folly fall,
Find thy body by the wall.”

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Matthew Arnold The Last Word

St. 4
The Last Word (1867)

“Below the surface stream, shallow and light,
Of what we say and feel — below the stream,
As light, of what we think we feel, there flows
With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep,
The central stream of what we feel indeed.”

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Matthew Arnold

"St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870)

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Culture and Anarchy

Introduction
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

“The World in which we live and move
Outlasts aversion, outlasts love:
Outlasts each effort, interest, hope,
Remorse, grief, joy.”

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Matthew Arnold

Origine: Resignation (1849), l. 215-218

“And long we try in vain to speak and act
Our hidden self, and what we say and do
Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!”

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Matthew Arnold

"The Buried Life" (1852), st. 6

“Ennobling this dull pomp, the life of kings,
By contemplation of diviner things.”

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Matthew Arnold

"Mycerinus" (1849)

“And as long as the world lasts, all who want to make progress in righteousness will come to Israel for inspiration, as to the people who have had the sense for righteousness most glowing and strongest; and in hearing and reading the words Israel has uttered for us, carers for conduct will find a glow and a force they could find nowhere else.”

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Origine: Literature and Dogma (1873), Ch. 1

“Peace, peace is what I seek and public calm,
Endless extinction of unhappy hates.”

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Matthew Arnold

"Merope" (1858), line 100

“To thee only God granted
A heart ever new:
To all always open;
To all always true.”

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Matthew Arnold Switzerland

"Switzerland", IV. "Parting" (1853)

“Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.”

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Matthew Arnold

Byron
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)

“I keep saying, Shakspeare, Shakspeare, you are as obscure as life is.”

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Matthew Arnold

Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough (ca. 6 December 1847)
Alternate spelling used

“The translator of Homer should above all be penetrated by a sense of four qualities of his author: — that he is eminently rapid; that he is eminently plain and direct both in the evolution of his thought and in the expression of it, that is, both in his syntax and in his words; that he is eminently plain and direct in the substance of his thought, that is, in his matter and ideas; and, finally, that he is eminently noble.”

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Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer

On Translating Homer (1861)

“Are ye too changed, ye hills?
See, ’tis no foot of unfamiliar men
Tonight from Oxford up your pathway strays!
Here came I often, often, in old days;
Thyrsis and I; we still had Thyrsis then.”

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Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

St. 1
Thyrsis (1866)

“Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.”

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Matthew Arnold

" Poor Matthias http://www.flippyscatpage.com/frompoormatthias.html" (1867)

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