Matthew Arnold Selected Writings

Seamus Perry, Balliol College, University of Oxford

Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature and Massey Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. His publications include Coleridge and the Uses of Division and Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection, and, co-edited with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Tennyson Among the Poets (all OUP).

Preface
Introduction
Chronology
Letters to Clough (1847-49)
Fragment of Chorus of a 'Dejaneira' (? 1847-8)
From The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849)
Sonnet [Quiet Work]
Mycerinus
To a Friend
The Strayed Reveller
Shakspeare
Written in Butler's Sermons
Written in Emerson's Essays
To an Independent Preacher
To a Republican Friend
Continued
Religious Isolation
To my Friends
To Fausta
The Hayswater Boat
The Forsaken Merman
Resignation
Letters to Clough and others (1849-52)
From Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852)
Empedocles on Etna
The Lake [Meeting]
Parting
Absence
Destiny
To Marguerite, in Returning a Volume of the Letters of Ortis [To Marguerite - Continued]
Human Life
Despondency
Self-Deception
Memorial Verses
A Summer Night
The Buried Life
A Farewell
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of 'Obermann'
Lines Written in Kensington Gardens
The Second Best
The Youth of Nature
Letters to Clough and Frances Arnold (1853)
From Poems. A New Edition (1853)
Preface
[Quiet Work]
Sohrab and Rustum. An Episode
A Dream
The Scholar Gipsy
Letters to Clough (November 1853)
General Report for the Year 1853 (1854)
From Poems. Second Edition (1854)
Preface
From Fraser's Magazine (April 1855)
Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse
From Fraser's Magazine (May 1855)
Haworth Chuchyard
Fragment from 'Lucretius' (? 1856-7)
From Poems. Third Edition (1857)
To Marguerite. [Isolation-To Marguerite]
Isolation [To Marguerite-Continued]
Letter to Mary Arnold (1857)
On the Modern Element in Literature (1857)
From Merope (1858)
Letter K (1858)
From On Translating Homer (1861)
From The Popular Education of France (1861)
Introduction [Democracy]
From Last Words on Translating Homer (1862)
General Report for the Year 1863 (1864)
From A French Eton (1864)
From Essays in Criticism (1865)
Preface
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
The Literary Influence of Academies
From Maurice de Guerin
From Heinrich Heine
From Joubert
From Cornhill Magazine (1966)
My Countrymen
From On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867)
From New Poems (1867)
Thyrsis
East London
West London
Austerity of Poetry
Calais Sands
Dover Beach
Growing Old
A Caution to Poets
Rugby Chapel
General Report for the Year 1867 (1868)
From Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Letter to Mary Arnold (1869)
From The Pall Mall Gazette (1869)
From St Paul and Protestantism (1870)
From Literature and Dogma (1873)
Our aspiration quits us, not our need (1875)
From The Nineteenth Century (1879)
S.S. Lusitania
From The Poems of Wordsworth (1879)
Preface
From The Hundred Greatest Men (1879)
Poetry: Introduction
From The English Poets, ed. T.H. Ward (1880)
General Introduction: On the Study of Poetry
Thomas Gray
John Keats
From The Poetry of Byron (1881)
From Preface
From Poems. New and Complete Edition (1881)
Geist's Grave
From Irish Essays (1882)
From The Incompatibles
From The French Play in London
From Macmillan's Magazine (1883)
An Address to the Wordsworth Society
From Literature and Dogma. Popular Edition (1883)
Preface to this Edition
From Discourses in America (1885)
Literature and Science
From Poems (1885)
Poor Matthias
From The Times, 13 November 1886
Mr Matthew Arnold and the Westminster Teachers
From Fortnightly Review (1887)
Kaiser Dead