Matthew Arnold bibliography



Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 â€“ April 15, 1888) was a prolific writer of both poetry and prose. The following are the works he published in his lifetime, plus noteworthy posthumous collections.

Poetry

 * Alaric at Rome: A Prize Poem. (1840)
 * Cromwell: A Prize Poem. (1843)
 * The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1849..
 * Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852.
 * Poems: A New Edition. (1853)
 * "The Scholar-Gipsy"
 * "Sohrab and Rustum".
 * Poems: Second Series. (1854)
 * "Balder Dead"
 * Merope: A Tragedy. (1858)
 * New Poems. London: Macmillan, 1867.
 * "Dover Beach".
 * A Matthew Arnold Birthday Book. (1883)
 * Posthumous
 * Empedocles on Etna: A Dramatic Poem. (1900)
 * The Works of Matthew Arnold. (1903)
 * C. B. Tinker and H. F. Lowry (editors), The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Oxford University Press, 1950. standard edition, ISBN 1125158401
 * Kenneth Allott (editor), The Poems of Matthew Arnold (London and New York: Longman Norton, 1965). ISBN 0-393-04377-0

Prose

 * England and the Italian Question. (1859, 1953)
 * The Popular Education of France, with Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland. (1861)
 * On Translating Homer: Three Lectures Given at Oxforchod. (1861)
 * On Translating Homer: Last Words: A Lecture Given at Oxford. (1862)
 * Heinrich Heine. (1863)
 * A French Eton; or, Middle Class Education and the State. (1864)
 * Essays in Criticism. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1865.
 * "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
 * Schools and Universities on the Continent. (1867)
 * Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. (1869)
 * On the Modern Element in Literature. (1869)
 * A Bible-Reading for Schools: The Great Prophecy of Israel's Restoration. (1872)
 * Literature and Dogma: An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible. (1873)
 * Higher Schools and Universities in Germany. (1874)
 * Isaiah XL-LXVI; with the Shorter Prophecies Allied to It. (1875)
 * God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to "Literature and Dogma". (1875)
 * Last Essays on Church and Religion. (1877)
 * The Hundred Greatest Men: Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History.(1879)
 * Mixed Essays. (1879)
 * The Study of Poetry. (1880)
 * Irish Essays, and Others. (1882)
 * St. Paul and Protestantism; with an Introduction on Puritanism and the Church of England. (1883)
 * On the Study of Celtic Literature. (1883)
 * Culture and Anarchy. (1883)
 * Friendship's Garland. (1883)
 * "Isaiah of Jerusalem" in the Authorized English Version, with an Introduction, Corrections and Notes (1883)
 * Discourses in America. (1885)
 * Education Department. (1886)
 * "Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve," in Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, IX: 162-165 (1886)
 * "Schools," in The Reign of Queen Victoria. (1887)
 * General Grant: An Estimate. (1887) (with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain, (1966)
 * Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America. (1888)
 * Posthumous
 * Essays in Criticism: Second Series. (1888)
 * Reports on Elementary Schools 1852-1882. (1889)
 * Arnold as Dramatic Critic. (1903)
 * Essays in Criticism: Third Series. (1910)
 * Thoughts on Education Chosen From the Writings of Matthew Arnold. (1912)
 * Five Uncollected Essays of Matthew Arnold. (1953)
 * Complete Prose Works. (1960)
 * Essays, Letters, and Reviews by Matthew Arnold. (1960)
 * Culture and the State. (1965)
 * Robert H. Super (editor), The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold in eleven volumes (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1960-1977)
 * Miriam Allott and Robert H. Super (editors), The Oxford Authors: Matthew Arnold (Oxford: Oxford university Press, 1986..
 * Stefan Collini (editor), Culture and Anarchy and other writings (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) part of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series..

Edited

 * The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets," with Macaulay's "Life of Johnson,". (1878)
 * The Poems of Wordsworth. (1879)
 * The Poetry of Byron. (1881)
 * Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs by Edmund Burke. (1881)

Letters and notes

 * On Home Rule for Ireland: Two Letters to "The Times". (1891)
 * George W. E. Russell (editor), Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1849-88, 2 vols. London and New York: Macmillan, 1895..
 * Matthew Arnold's Notebooks. (1902)
 * Letters of an Old Playgoer. (1919)
 * Unpublished Letters of Matthew Arnold. (1923)
 * Howard F. Lowry (editor), The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough. New York: Oxford University Press, 1932..
 * The Note-Books of Matthew Arnold. (1952)
 * Matthew Arnold's Letters: A Descriptive Checklist. (1968)
 * Cecil Y. Lang (editor), The Letters of Matthew Arnold in six volumes. Charlottesville and London: The University Press of Virginia, 1996-2001.