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Born in December 24, 1822 / Died in April 15, 1888 / United Kingdom / English

Bibliography

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  • Alaric at Rome: A Prize Poem (Rugby: Combe & Crossley, 1840).
  • Cromwell: A Prize Poem (Oxford: Vincent, 1843).
  • The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems, as A. (London: Fellowes, 1849).
  • Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems, as A. (London: Fellowes, 1852); republished as Empedocles on Etna: A Dramatic Poem (Portland, Maine: Mosher, 1900).
  • Poems: A New Edition (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1853).
  • Poems: Second Series (London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855).
  • Merope: A Tragedy (London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman & Roberts, 1858).
  • England and the Italian Question (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1859); edited by Merle M. Bevington (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1953).
  • The Popular Education of France, with Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861).
  • On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxford (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861).
  • On Translating Homer: Last Words: A Lecture Given at Oxford (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1862).
  • Heinrich Heine (Philadelphia: Leypoldt/New York: Christern, 1863).
  • A French Eton; or, Middle Class Education and the State (London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1864).
  • Essays in Criticism (London & Cambridge: Macmillan, 1865; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865).
  • On the Study of Celtic Literature (London: Smith, Elder, 1867); with On Translating Homer (New York: Macmillan, 1883).
  • New Poems (London: MacMillan, 1867; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867).
  • Schools and Universities on the Continent (London: MacMillan, 1868); republished in part as Higher Schools and Universities in Germany (London: MacMillan, 1874).
  • Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism (London: Smith, Elder, 1869); with Friendship's Garland (New York: MacMillan, 1883).
  • St. Paul and Protestantism; with an Introduction on Puritanism and the Church of England (London: Smith, Elder, 1870; New York: MacMillan, 1883).
  • Friendship's Garland: Being the Conversations, Letters and Opinions of the Late Arminius, Baron von Thunder-ten-Tronckh; Collected and Edited with a Dedicatory Letter to Adolescens Leo, Esq., of "The Daily Telegraph" (London: Smith, Elder, 1871); with Culture and Anarchy (New York: MacMillan, 1883).
  • Literature and Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible (London: Smith, Elder, 1873; New York: Macmillan, 1873).
  • God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to "Literature and Dogma" (London: Smith, Elder, 1875; Boston: Osgood, 1876).
  • Last Essays on Church and Religion (London: Smith, Elder, 1877; New York: Macmillan, 1877).
  • Mixed Essays (London: Smith, Elder, 1879; New York: MacMillan, 1879).
  • Irish Essays, and Others (London: Smith, Elder, 1882).
  • Discourses in America (New York & London: Macmillan, 1885).
  • Education Department: Special Report on Certain Points Connected with Elementary Education in Germany, Switzerland, and France (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1886).
  • General Grant: An Estimate (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1887); republished as General Grant. With a Rejoinder by Mark Twain, edited by J.Y. Simon (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966).
  • Essays in Criticism: Second Series (London & New York: Macmillan, 1888).
  • Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America (Boston: Cupples & Hurd, 1888).
  • Reports on Elementary Schools 1852-1882, edited by Sir Francis Sandford (London & New York: Macmillan, 1889).
  • On Home Rule for Ireland: Two Letters to "The Times" (London: Privately printed, 1891).
  • Matthew Arnold's Notebooks (London: Smith, Elder, 1902); republished as The Note-Books of Matthew Arnold, edited by Howard Foster Lowry, Karl Young, and Waldo Hilary Dunn (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1952).
  • Arnold as Dramatic Critic, edited by C. K. Shorter (London: Privately printed, 1903); republished as Letters of an Old Playgoer, edited by Brander Matthews (New York: Columbia University Press, 1919).
  • Essays in Criticism: Third Series, edited by Edward J. O'Brien (Boston: Ball, 1910).
  • Thoughts on Education Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold edited by L. Huxley (London: Smith, Elder, 1912; New York: Macmillan, 1912).
  • Five Uncollected Essays of Matthew Arnold, edited by Kenneth Allott (Liverpool: University Press of Liverpool, 1953).
  • Essays, Letters, and Reviews by Matthew Arnold, edited by Fraser Nieman (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960).

Collections

  • The Works of Matthew Arnold, edited by G.W.E. Russell. 15 volumes (London: Macmillan, 1903-1904).
  • The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, edited by C. B. Tinker and H. F. Lowry (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1950).
  • Complete Prose Works, edited by R. H. Super, 11 volumes (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960-1977).
  • The Poems of Matthew Arnold, edited by Kenneth Allott (London: Longmans, 1965).
  • Culture and the State, edited by P. Nash (New York: Teachers College Press, 1965).

Other

  • A Bible-Reading for Schools: The Great Prophecy of Israel's Restoration (Isaiah, Chapters 40-66) Arranged and Edited for Young Learners, edited by Arnold (London: MacMillan, 1872).
  • Isaiah XL-LXVI; with the Shorter Prophecies Allied to It, Arranged and Edited with Notes, edited by Arnold (London: MacMillan, 1875).
  • The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," with Macaulay's "Life of Johnson," edited by Arnold (London: MacMillan, 1878).
  • The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History, introduction by Arnold (London: Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879).
  • Poems of Wordsworth, edited by Arnold (London: MacMillan, 1879).
  • Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs by Edmund Burke, edited by Arnold (London: MacMillan, 1881).
  • Poetry of Byron, edited by Arnold (London: MacMillan, 1881).
  • Isaiah of Jerusalem in the Authorised English Version, with an Introduction, Corrections and Notes, edited by Arnold (London: Macmillan, 1883).
  • "Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve," in Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth edition (London: Black, 1886), IX: 162-165.
  • "Schools," in The Reign of Queen Victoria, edited by T. H. Ward (London: Smith, Elder, 1887), II: 238-279.

Letters

  • Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888, edited by G. W. E. Russell, 2 volumes (London: Macmillan, 1895).
  • Unpublished Letters of Matthew Arnold, edited by Arnold Whitridge (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923).
  • The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough, edited by H. F. Lowry (London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1932).
  • Matthew Arnold's Letters: A Descriptive Checklist, edited by A. K. Davis, Jr. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1968).



The major manuscript repositories for Arnold are the Beinecke Library at Yale and the Arthur Kyle Davis Papers at the University of Virginia. The Yale material includes notebooks, diaries, commonplace books, literary manuscripts, and over 200 letters. The Virginia materials consist mainly of letters. For a detailed summary of the location of Arnold's literary manuscripts and letters, see Barbara Rosenbaum and Pamela White, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, Volume 4: 1800-1900, Part 1: Arnold to Gissing (London: Mansell/New York: Wilson, 1982).