English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1427 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Matthew Arnold the Critic
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The idea
In middle age Matthew Arnold turned to prose criticism. The anchor says he advocated an educated public versed in the classics, and proposed "touchstones" from the best thinking and writing of the world as objective measures. He thought literature could develop character and culture cure society's ills.
In practice
Touchstones, culture, criticism.
Where people slip
Arnold the poet is in unit fourteen.
Your place on the trail
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