Matthew Arnold
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Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed and aged, consistent with a 1928 publication. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact though aged. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A landmark biographical study, Matthew Arnold by Hugh Kingsmill presents a vivid and penetrating portrait of one of Victorian England's most celebrated poets and cultural critics. Kingsmill chronicles Arnold's life with sharp wit and intellectual rigour, situating his subject within the turbulent social and literary currents of the nineteenth century. The work details Arnold's dual legacy as both a lyric poet of quiet melancholy and a prose writer of formidable influence, whose essays on culture, religion, and education shaped public discourse for generations. Kingsmill argues with characteristic irreverence that Arnold's personal contradictions — his romantic yearnings versus his public moralism — were the very engine of his genius, making this biography as psychologically probing as it is historically illuminating.
Author: Hugh Kingsmill
Format: Hardback
Published: 1928, Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair to Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed and aged, consistent with a 1928 publication. Markings: previous owner. Binding: Appears intact though aged. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A landmark biographical study, Matthew Arnold by Hugh Kingsmill presents a vivid and penetrating portrait of one of Victorian England's most celebrated poets and cultural critics. Kingsmill chronicles Arnold's life with sharp wit and intellectual rigour, situating his subject within the turbulent social and literary currents of the nineteenth century. The work details Arnold's dual legacy as both a lyric poet of quiet melancholy and a prose writer of formidable influence, whose essays on culture, religion, and education shaped public discourse for generations. Kingsmill argues with characteristic irreverence that Arnold's personal contradictions — his romantic yearnings versus his public moralism — were the very engine of his genius, making this biography as psychologically probing as it is historically illuminating.