This edition gathers Arnold’s essential prose, from the 1853 preface on poetry and the classics to his essays on criticism, culture and great writers, including his study of the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius. An introduction and bibliography by William Savage Johnson set the pieces in the context of Arnold’s career as poet, school inspector and Oxford professor of poetry.
A convenient way into the critic who gave English the phrases sweetness and light and the best that has been thought and said. Download the free EPUB.