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Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the famed headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator.

Arnold's most famous piece literary criticis is study of poetry. In this essay he discussed about the poetry. He believes that " poetry is criticism of life,governed by the law of poetic truth and poetic truth."

idea of Matthew Arnold which I found interesting and relevant in this times.

The idea I like the most is idea about the Matthew Arnold's criticism is the great principal of disinterestdness and detechment. Disinterestdness on the part of the critic implies freedom for all prejudice, personal  or historical.

According to him crictic must must be free from all prejudice, personal or evan historical. This idea I like the most because when one crictic if he has his prejudice than that criticism is not good. Because when he critisied any thing with any kind of prejudice then his work lost its originality. Because criticism is by it self is work of art. We consider criticism as work of art because crictic him self observe something different then other author and criticise that thing. So, when he critisied any thing he must be free from personal and historical prejudice.

one idea of Matthew Arnold which I found out-of-date and irrelevant in this times.

The Idea I found out-of-date is about the Touchstone method. According to this idea we found  comparison between two poem or some line of poem with other poem or lines of other lines. This idea I found irrelevant and out-of-date because firstly it is not appropriate to compare two work with each other. Because time when work was written is different or even social and political background of time is different. Person's emotions who wrote this poem is different then each other.

We must accept work with it's originality comparing with other work losses feeling of that work.And Arnold him self say that " The poet must choose those action which most powerfully apples  to great  primary Human feeling which subsist premanently in the rase." So We must give Importance to feeling rather than the words or comparing with other poet or there work.


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