Mathew Arnold was a 19th century English poet and critic. He was born in 1822 in Laleham, England and educated at Winchester School and Balliol College, Oxford. Arnold published influential works of literary and social criticism such as Essays in Criticism and Culture and Anarchy. As a poet, his work was often elegiac in tone and focused on themes of loss, melancholy, and the conflict between religion and science in the modern world. He is regarded as one of the major Victorian poets and a pioneering literary critic in England.

1. Mathew Arnold

2.  Birth Date 24 December 1822
 Birth Place Laleham
 Father Name Thomas Arnold
 Friends
 Arthur Hugh Clough
 William Words Worth
 Love
 Marguerite
 Frances Lucy
 Children 6 .
 4 Boys 2 Girls

3. Education
 WINCHSTER SCHOOL IN 1836
 BALLIOL COLLEGE OXFORD 1841

4. Criticism
 Published His Lecture On
Translating Homer In 1861
 Last Word S On Translating Homer
In 1862
 Essay On Criticism In 1865
 Social Essay N Criticism
Friendship Garland Mixed Essay
 Religion Criticism St Paul And
Protestantism

God And The Bible

5. Theology And Social Theory
He Began Devoting His
Attention To Social And
Theological Subject
And Literature And
Dogma
Church And Religion In
1877

6. Arnold Classicism
Not Believe In Unbridled
Imagination He Choose To
trust In Intellect And
Critical Spirit
Preface He Recorded His
Protest Against
subjectivism And
Individualism
Hugh Walker

7. Arnolds Work Poetry
 Alaric At Rome And Cromwell Was
Prize Poem
 Political Venture Was Strayed
Reveller
 Empedocles On Etna And Other
Poem In 1852
 Poetry Is Elegiac In Character
 Melancholy Is Clear In His Poetry
 Different Themes

8. Arnold Romanticism
 The Forsaken Merman Full Of
Romance
 Love Poem Are Strikingly
Romantic Although Edmund
Blended Calls Them Elegies Of
Love
 Tribute To Words Worth
 Laid Us As We Lay At Birth
 On The Cool Flowery Lap Of Earth
 E.G Parting A farewell

9. Theory Of Poetry
A Time Is Not Far When
Poetry Will Replace
Science And Religion

10. Poet Of Nature
He Was Inspired From
Wordsworth .But For Him
Secret Of Nature Is Not
Joy But Peace

11. Elegiac Poet
Most Elegiac Poet In English
Literature
Entire Body Of Poetry Is
Elegiac Some Time Personal
And Some Time Impersonal
E.G Virgilian Cry.
Melancholy.
Gipsy Child
Summer Night .

12. Modern Element In Arnold
Work
He Found Crudity Vulgarity
Violence Brought Wake Of
The Industrial Revolution
Dover Beach Is Modern Poem.
He Is Modern Because He
Inaugurated A New Age In
Criticism.

14. Narrative Poem
He Wrote Six Narrative Poem
The Forsaken Merman
Mycerinus
The Sick King In Bokhara
Tristram And Iseult In
Cornwall
Sohrab And Rustum
Balders Dead

15. Message
Arnold Seek An Ideal Life
Through The Medium Of
Poetry
Grand Function Of Poetry Is
To Deal With Man And Destiny
Arnold Suggested Religion
Moral And Aesthetic Traced
Through Poetry

16. Mathew Arnold

17. Style And Language
 Greek Spirit In Writing Style
 He Had Classical Tradition In His
Bone
 He Avoided Subjectivity Which He
Said Allegory Of Mind
 Elizabethan Poets
 Poet Should Add Two Thing One
Feeling And Thought Other
Composition and Grand Style
 Grace And Elegance

18.  Eyes Too Expressive To
Be Blue Too Lovely To Be
Grey
 He Don’t Like Metre
 Clarity Lucidity And
Brevity Is Character Of
His Style

19. Poetic Drama
Empedocles On Etna
Merope

20. Lyric Poet
 Lyric Poet Are Essential Romantic
For Subjectivity Is The Essence Of
LyricS
 Switzerland Poem And Fades Love
Have Lyric Grace And Delicacy .
 Fades Leaves Are Synthesis Of
Gravity Of Thought And Emotion
 Musicality Is Strong Essence Of But
Not Strong Point Of Arnold

21. Arnold Prose Works
A Victorian Who Deserved
To Be Remember For His
Verses
Prophet Of Age

22. Teaching And Traveling
 He Was Teacher In Rugby School
 The Inspector Of Schools In
Lansdowne
 Private Sectary In Lansdowne
 Delivered Many Lecture In USA
 Awarded Fellow Ship At Oriel
Collage
 Traveling In Wales France
Ireland And London

23. Death
On 15 April 1888
Drowned In Water