Matthew Arnold'ın Nesir Eserlerinden Seçmeler - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

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Riverside College Classics

SELECTIONS

FROM THE PROSE WORKS OF

MATTHEW ARNOLD

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

WILLIAM SAVAGE JOHNSON, PH.D.

Professor of English Literature in the University of Kansas

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

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The Riverside Press Cambridge

The essays included in this issue of the Riverside College Classics arereprinted by permission of, and by arrangement with, The MacmillanCompany, the American publishers of Arnold's writings.

1913, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

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PREFACE

This book of selections aims to furnish examples of Arnold's prose inall the fields in which it characteristically employed itself exceptthat of religion. It has seemed better to omit all such material than toattempt inclusion of a few extracts which could hardly give any adequatenotion of Arnold's work in this department. Something, however, of hismethod in religious criticism can be discerned by a perusal of thechapter on Hebraism and Hellenism, selected from Culture andAnarchy. Most of Arnold's leading ideas are represented in this volume,but the decision to use entire essays so far as feasible has naturallyprecluded the possibility of gathering all the important utterancestogether. The basis of division and grouping of the selections is madesufficiently obvious by the headings. In the division of literarycriticism the endeavor has been to illustrate Arnold's cosmopolitanismby essays of first-rate importance dealing with the four literatureswith which he was well acquainted. In the notes, conciseness with areasonable degree of thoroughness has been the principle followed.

INTRODUCTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SELECTIONS:

I. THEORIES OF LITERATURE AND CRITICISM:

1. Poetry and the Classics (1853) 2. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time (1864) 3. The Study of Poetry (1880) 4. Literature and Science (1882)

II. LITERARY CRITICISM:

1. Heinrich Heine (1863) 2. Marcus Aurelius (1863) 3. The Contribution of the Celts to English Literature (1866) 4. George Sand (1877) 5. Wordsworth (1879)