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• Title: Matthew Arnold (Guide to the Year's Work)
• Author : Victorian Poetry
• Release Date : January 22, 2004
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 184 KB

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Although the record of Arnold scholarship over the past year contains no single item to match the significance of the final volume of Cecil Lang's edition of Arnold's letters or the monograph on Arnold's poetry by Alan Grob discussed in last year's essay, I will be reporting on numerous book chapters and journal articles that 'add to our understanding of Arnold's poetry, critical prose, and his role in the development of nineteenth-century culture, as well as his continuing influence in our own times. Several of the articles offer new readings of individual poems. In "Matthew Arnold's 'Rugby Chapel' and Thomas Arnold's Travel Journals" (ELN 40 no. 4: 61-73), Francis O'Gorman shows how the persona of Matthew Arnold's father as reflected in his own lengthy travel journals--"that of the continually moving and continually learning subjectivity, sometimes seeking particular forms of information, always documenting with precision the practical movements of his journey"--contributed to the portrait of Dr. Arnold in these well-known "memorial verses." O'Gorman even speculates that a somewhat ironic reference in Dr. Arnold's account of a tour through Belgium in 1816 (six years before the birth of Matthew) may have suggested the powerful "City of God" image at the end of the poem, but his central point is the poem's "bold, masculinist troping of Dr. Arnold as tireless continental traveller" that had not been studied in depth by previous critics. In addition to providing a new reading of an important poem, O'Gorman's article gives us new insight into a complex and fascinating Victorian father-son relationship (as do some of the publications discussed below).

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