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Study of Poetry
- Mathew Arnold
Introduction
Matthew Arnold
 Foremost poets and critics of the 19th century
 Father of modern literary criticism
 Wrote extensively on social and cultural issues, religion, and education
Arnold‟s most famous piece of literary criticism is his essay “The
Study of Poetry.”
In this work, Arnold is fundamentally concerned with poetry‟s “high
destiny;” he believes that “mankind will discover that we have to
turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us” as
science and philosophy will eventually prove flimsy and unstable.
At the root of Arnold‟s argument is his desire to illuminate and preserve
the poets he believes to be the touchstones of literature, and to ask
questions about the moral value of poetry that does not champion truth,
beauty, valor, and clarity.
According to Arnold
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high
destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.
There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not
shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to
dissolve.
Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached
its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it.
But for poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion.
Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact.
The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry
Victorian Criticism
Art and Morality: Art for Art’s sake
Carlyle Ruskin : Moral view should be the benchmark to judge the
work of literature. Art should be for the betterment of life.
Art and Aesthetic pleasure: Art for Art’s sake
Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde: Aesthetic and artistic delight should be the
benchmark to judge the work of literature. Art should be for delight and
pleasure of mankind.
Mathew Arnold – The Critic
The business of criticism, is not to find fault nor to display the critic‟s own learning
or influence, but it is to know „the best which has been thought and said in the
world‟ and by using this knowledge to create a current of fresh and free thought.
The Study of Poetry: The first essay in the 1888 volume was originally published as the
general introduction to T.H. Ward‟s anthology, The English Poets ( 1880)
His Classicism: He did not like the spasmodic expression of Romanticism. He advocated
discipline in writing and recommended the classical writers.
He says-
We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher
destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More
and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret
life for us, to console us, to sustain us.
Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now
passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
If we conceive thus highly of the destinies of poetry, we must also set our
standard for poetry high, since poetry, to be capable of fulfilling such high
destinies, must be poetry of a high order of excellence. We must accustom
ourselves to a high standard and to a strict judgment.
Mathew Arnold  Study of Poetry
A Moralist
As a critic Arnold is essentially a moralist, and has very definite ideas about
what poetry should and should not be. A poetry of revolt against moral ideas,
he says, is a poetry of revolt against life, and a poetry of indifference to
moral ideas is a poetry of indifference to life.
 Aristotle says that poetry is superior to
History since it bears the stamp of high
seriousness and truth. If truth and
seriousness are wanting in the subject matter
of a poem, so will the true poetic stamp of
diction and movement be found wanting in
its style and manner. Hence the two, the
nobility of subject matter, and the
superiority of style and manner, are
proportional and cannot occur independently.
Arnold took up Aristotle's view, asserting that
true greatness in poetry is given by the truth
and seriousness of its subject matter, and by
the high diction and movement in its style
and manner, and although indebted to Joshua
Reynolds for the expression 'grand style',
Arnold gave it a new meaning when he used
it in his lecture On Translating Homer (1861):
 I think it will be found that that the grand
style arises in poetry when a noble nature,
poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or
with a severity a serious subject.
 According to Arnold, Homer is the best model
of a simple grand style, while Milton is the
best model of severe grand style. Dante,
however, is an example of both.
Future of Poetry
The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, our race, as time goes
on, will find an even surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not
shaken. But for poetry, the idea is everything; the rest is a world of
illuision, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches emotion to the idea,; the idea is
a fact. The strongest part of our religion, to-day is its unconscrious poetry.‟
We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain
us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete, and most of what
now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Poetry is Criticism of Life
-Arnold asserts that literature, and especially poetry, is
„Criticism of life’.
- In poetry, this criticism of life must conform to the laws of poetic truth
and poetic beauty
Truth and seriousness of matter, felicity and perfection of diction and
manner, as are exhibited in the best poets, are what constitutes a
criticism of life.
Key components of Poetry
Thus, the superior character of truth and seriousness, in the matter and
substance of the best poetry, is inseparable from the superiority of diction and
movement marking its style and manner
Mathew Arnold  Study of Poetry
Even Chaucer, in Arnold's view, in spite of his virtues such as
benignity, largeness, and spontaneity, lacks seriousness.
Burns too lacks sufficient seriousness, because he was hypocritical
in that while he adopted a moral stance in some of his poems, in his
private life he flouted morality.
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Return to Classical values
Arnold believed that a modern writer should be aware that contemporary literature is built
on the foundations of the past, and should contribute to the future by continuing a firm
tradition. Quoting Goethe and Niebuhr in support of his view, he asserts that his age suffers
from spiritual weakness because it thrives on self-interest and scientific materialism, and
therefore cannot provide noble characters such as those found in Classical literature.
He urged modern poets to look to the ancients and their great characters and themes for
guidance and inspiration. Classical literature, in his view, possess pathos, moral profundity
and noble simplicity, while modern themes, arising from an age of spiritual weakness, are
suitable for only comic and lighter kinds of poetry, and don't possess the loftiness to support
epic or heroic poetry.
Arnold turns his back on the prevailing Romantic view of poetry and seeks to revive the
Classical values of objectivity, urbanity, and architectonics. He denounces the Romantics for
ignoring the Classical writers for the sake of novelty, and for their allusive (Arnold uses the
word 'suggestive') writing which defies easy comprehension.
Work Cited
http://www.english-literature.org/essays/arnold.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold
Arnold's evaluations of the Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Byron,
Shelley, and Keats are landmarks in descriptive criticism, and as a poet-
critic he occupies an eminent position in the rich galaxy of poet-critics of
English literature.

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Mathew Arnold Study of Poetry

  • 1. Study of Poetry - Mathew Arnold
  • 2. Introduction Matthew Arnold  Foremost poets and critics of the 19th century  Father of modern literary criticism  Wrote extensively on social and cultural issues, religion, and education
  • 3. Arnold‟s most famous piece of literary criticism is his essay “The Study of Poetry.” In this work, Arnold is fundamentally concerned with poetry‟s “high destiny;” he believes that “mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us” as science and philosophy will eventually prove flimsy and unstable.
  • 4. At the root of Arnold‟s argument is his desire to illuminate and preserve the poets he believes to be the touchstones of literature, and to ask questions about the moral value of poetry that does not champion truth, beauty, valor, and clarity.
  • 5. According to Arnold The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion to-day is its unconscious poetry
  • 6. Victorian Criticism Art and Morality: Art for Art’s sake Carlyle Ruskin : Moral view should be the benchmark to judge the work of literature. Art should be for the betterment of life. Art and Aesthetic pleasure: Art for Art’s sake Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde: Aesthetic and artistic delight should be the benchmark to judge the work of literature. Art should be for delight and pleasure of mankind.
  • 7. Mathew Arnold – The Critic The business of criticism, is not to find fault nor to display the critic‟s own learning or influence, but it is to know „the best which has been thought and said in the world‟ and by using this knowledge to create a current of fresh and free thought. The Study of Poetry: The first essay in the 1888 volume was originally published as the general introduction to T.H. Ward‟s anthology, The English Poets ( 1880) His Classicism: He did not like the spasmodic expression of Romanticism. He advocated discipline in writing and recommended the classical writers.
  • 8. He says- We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. If we conceive thus highly of the destinies of poetry, we must also set our standard for poetry high, since poetry, to be capable of fulfilling such high destinies, must be poetry of a high order of excellence. We must accustom ourselves to a high standard and to a strict judgment.
  • 10. A Moralist As a critic Arnold is essentially a moralist, and has very definite ideas about what poetry should and should not be. A poetry of revolt against moral ideas, he says, is a poetry of revolt against life, and a poetry of indifference to moral ideas is a poetry of indifference to life.
  • 11.  Aristotle says that poetry is superior to History since it bears the stamp of high seriousness and truth. If truth and seriousness are wanting in the subject matter of a poem, so will the true poetic stamp of diction and movement be found wanting in its style and manner. Hence the two, the nobility of subject matter, and the superiority of style and manner, are proportional and cannot occur independently. Arnold took up Aristotle's view, asserting that true greatness in poetry is given by the truth and seriousness of its subject matter, and by the high diction and movement in its style and manner, and although indebted to Joshua Reynolds for the expression 'grand style', Arnold gave it a new meaning when he used it in his lecture On Translating Homer (1861):  I think it will be found that that the grand style arises in poetry when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with a severity a serious subject.  According to Arnold, Homer is the best model of a simple grand style, while Milton is the best model of severe grand style. Dante, however, is an example of both.
  • 12. Future of Poetry The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, our race, as time goes on, will find an even surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken. But for poetry, the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illuision, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches emotion to the idea,; the idea is a fact. The strongest part of our religion, to-day is its unconscrious poetry.‟ We have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us. Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
  • 13. Poetry is Criticism of Life -Arnold asserts that literature, and especially poetry, is „Criticism of life’. - In poetry, this criticism of life must conform to the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty Truth and seriousness of matter, felicity and perfection of diction and manner, as are exhibited in the best poets, are what constitutes a criticism of life.
  • 14. Key components of Poetry Thus, the superior character of truth and seriousness, in the matter and substance of the best poetry, is inseparable from the superiority of diction and movement marking its style and manner
  • 16. Even Chaucer, in Arnold's view, in spite of his virtues such as benignity, largeness, and spontaneity, lacks seriousness. Burns too lacks sufficient seriousness, because he was hypocritical in that while he adopted a moral stance in some of his poems, in his private life he flouted morality.
  • 24. Return to Classical values Arnold believed that a modern writer should be aware that contemporary literature is built on the foundations of the past, and should contribute to the future by continuing a firm tradition. Quoting Goethe and Niebuhr in support of his view, he asserts that his age suffers from spiritual weakness because it thrives on self-interest and scientific materialism, and therefore cannot provide noble characters such as those found in Classical literature. He urged modern poets to look to the ancients and their great characters and themes for guidance and inspiration. Classical literature, in his view, possess pathos, moral profundity and noble simplicity, while modern themes, arising from an age of spiritual weakness, are suitable for only comic and lighter kinds of poetry, and don't possess the loftiness to support epic or heroic poetry. Arnold turns his back on the prevailing Romantic view of poetry and seeks to revive the Classical values of objectivity, urbanity, and architectonics. He denounces the Romantics for ignoring the Classical writers for the sake of novelty, and for their allusive (Arnold uses the word 'suggestive') writing which defies easy comprehension.
  • 25. Work Cited http://www.english-literature.org/essays/arnold.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold Arnold's evaluations of the Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats are landmarks in descriptive criticism, and as a poet- critic he occupies an eminent position in the rich galaxy of poet-critics of English literature.