Matthew Arnold - George William Erskine Russell

Matthew Arnold

By George William Erskine Russell

  • Release Date: 1869-01-01
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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This book is intended to deal with substance rather than with form. But, in estimating the work of a teacher who taught exclusively with the pen, it would be perverse to disregard entirely the qualities of the writing which so penetrated and colored the intellectual life of the Victorian age. Some cursory estimate of Arnold's powers in prose and verse must therefore be attempted, before we pass on to consider the practical effect which those powers enabled him to produce.

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