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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

“Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there!—
Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim,
These brambles pale with mist engarlanded,
That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him;
To a boon southern country he is fled,
And now in happier air,
Wandering with the great Mother’s train divine
(And purer or more subtle soul than thee,
I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see)
Within a folding of the Apennine.”

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Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

St. 18
Thyrsis (1866)

“Who prop, thou ask'st in these bad days, my mind?
He much, the old man, who, clearest-souled of men,
Saw The Wide Prospect, and the Asian Fen,
And Tmolus hill, and Smyrna bay, though blind.”

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Matthew Arnold

"To a Friend" http://www.poetry-online.org/arnold_to_a_friend.htm (1849), line 1

“For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.”

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The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)

“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,
Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure,
Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. — Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow,
Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.”

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Matthew Arnold

"Shakespeare" (1849)

“Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.”

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Matthew Arnold The Last Word

St. 2
The Last Word (1867)

“How fair a lot to fill
Is left to each man still.”

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Matthew Arnold

"A Summer Night," Poems: Second Series, (1855), last stanza http://books.google.com/books?id=IzpcAAAAcAAJ&q=%22How+fair+a+lot+to+fill+Is+left+to+each+man+still%22&pg=PA210#v=onepage

“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and wisely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance.”

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Heinrich Heine, p. 144
Essays in Criticism (1865)

“Of these two literatures, as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavour, in all branches of knowledge — theology, philosophy, history, art, science — to see the object as in itself it really is.”

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Matthew Arnold On Translating Homer

On Translating Homer (1861)

“O born in days when wits were fresh and clear,
And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;
Before this strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims,
Its heads o’ertax’d, its palsied hearts, was rife.”

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Matthew Arnold

St. 21
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

“Her cabin’d, ample Spirit,
It flutter’d and fail’d for breath.
To-night it doth inherit
The vasty Hall of Death.”

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Matthew Arnold

"Requiescat" (1853), st. 4

“Yes: in the sea of life enisl’d,
With echoing straits between us thrown,
Dotting the shoreless watery wild,
We mortal millions live alone.”

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"To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis" (1852), stanza 1

“Where great whales come sailing by,
Sail and sail, with unshut eye,
Round the world for ever and aye?
When did music come this way?
Children dear, was it yesterday?”

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Matthew Arnold

St. 3
The Forsaken Merman (1849)

“Hither and thither spins
The wind-borne mirroring soul,
A thousand glimpses wins,
And never sees a whole.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Empedocles on Etna

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

“Still nursing the unconquerable hope,
Still clutching the inviolable shade,
With a free, onward impulse brushing through,
By night, the silver’d branches of the glade.”

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St. 22
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

“Why faintest thou! I wander’d till I died.
Roam on! The light we sought is shining still.
Dost thou ask proof? Our tree yet crowns the hill,
Our Scholar travels yet the loved hillside.”

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Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

St, 24
Thyrsis (1866)

“Physician of the Iron Age,
Goethe has done his pilgrimage.
He took the suffering human race,
He read each wound, each weakness clear —
And struck his finger on the place,
And said — Thou ailest here, and here.”

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St. 3
Memorial Verses (1852)

“The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Culture and Anarchy

Preface
Culture and Anarchy (1869)

“The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.”

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Matthew Arnold libro Culture and Anarchy

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

“There is the world of ideas and there is the world of practice; the French are often for suppressing the one and the English the other; but neither is to be suppressed.”

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The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)

“I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.”

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Letter to Arthur Hugh Clough (12 February 1853)

“At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.”

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Preface to God and the Bible (1875)

“Singing, "Here came a mortal,
But faithless was she:
And alone dwell for ever
The kings of the sea."”

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St. 7
The Forsaken Merman (1849)

“Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe,
Returning home on summer-nights, have met
Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe,
Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet,
As the punt’s rope chops round.”

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St. 8
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

“Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light.”

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Heinrich Heine, p. 146
Essays in Criticism (1865)

“A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.”

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On Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)

“If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.”

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Civilization in the United States (1888), p. 177

“Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why, then, should we desire to be deceived?”

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Joseph Butler, Human Nature and Other Sermons, "Sermon VII" as quoted in Arnold's "St. Paul and Protestantism" (1870).
Misattributed

“Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask — Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.”

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" Shakespeare http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/marnold/bl-marn-shakes.htm" (1849, st. 1)

“The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.”

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Matthew Arnold

"Schools and Universities on the Continent" (1868)

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