Matthew Arnold and the Romantics

Name: Matthew Arnold and the Romantics
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Matthew Arnold and the RomanticsAuthor(s): Leon Gottfried\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138190917, 978-1138190917\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1963. Matthew Arnold grew up under the personal as well as literary influence of Wordsworth, when Keats, Shelley, and Byron were dominant poetic forces and Coleridge a seminal thinker on social and religious problems. However, the great Romantics were not always positive influences. This study attempts to provide an examination of Arnold by exploring and evaluating the full range of Arnolds reactions to the major Romantic poets over his whole career. This title will be of interest to students of literature.