Male : Poet, Critic and Educational Reformer. Son of Dr Arnold, headmaster of Rugby School. Married Frances Wightman in 1851

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Laleham-on-Thames, Surrey

Date of Birth : 1822 Date of Death : 1888 Age : 66

Pseudonyms : "A"

Other Work : Inspector of Schools

Education : Winchester, Rugby & Balliol College, Oxford

1840-1850
Alaric at Home (1840 Combe and Crossley) - pamphlet
Cromwell : A Prize Poem (1843 J Vincent, Oxford)
The Strayed Reveller & Other Poems (1849 B Fellowes) - by "A"

1851-1860
Empedocles on Etna & Other Poems (1852 B Fellowes) - by "A"
Empedocles on Etna & Other Poems (1896 Vale Press) - Ltd Ed 210
Poems (1853 Longman)
Poems : 2nd Series (1855 Longman)
Merope : A Tragedy (1858 Longman)
England and the Italian Question (1859 Longman) - pamphlet

1861-1870
The Popular Education of France (1861 Longman)
On Translating Homer (1861 Longman)
Last Words on Translating Homer (1862 Longman)
A French Eton, or Middle Class Education and the State (1864 Macmillan)
Essays in Criticism : First Series (1865 Macmillan)
New Poems (1867 Macmillan)
On the Study of Celtic Literature (1867 Smith Elder)
Schools and University on the Continent (1868 Macmillan)
Culture and Anarchy (1869 Smith Elder) (1875 SE 2nd Ed)
Poems (1869 Macmillan) - 2 vols
St Paul and Protestantism (1870 SE)

1871-1880
Friendship's Garland (1871 SE)
Literature and Dogma (1873 SE)
Higher Schools and Universities in Germany (1874 Macmillan)
God and the Bible (1875 SE)
(Ed) Isaiah XL-LXVI with the Shorter prophecies Allied to it (1875 Macmillan)
Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877 SE)
Poems (1877 Macmillan) - 2 vols
Selected Poems (1878 Macmillan)
Mixed Essays (1879 Smith Elder)

1881-1890
Irish Essays & Others (1882 SE)
(Intro & Notes by) Isaiah of Jerusalem in the Authorised English version (1883 Macmillan)
Discourses on America (1885 Macmillan)
Poems (1885-8 Macmillan) - 3 vols
Civilisation in the United States (1888 Cupples & Hurd, US)
Essays in Criticism, Second Series (1888 Macmillan)
Reports on Elementary Schools 1852-1882 (1889 Macmillan) (1910 HMSO) - new edition

1891-1900
A French Eton or Middle Class education and the State (1892 Macmillan)
Selected Letters (1895 Macmillan) - 2 vols
The Forsaken Merman (1900 Dent)

20thC
Matthew Arnold's Notebooks (1902 Smith Elder)
Complete Works (1903 Macmillan) - 15 vols
Eugenie de Guerin (1903 Mosher, Portland) - 425
Complete Works (1903 Macmillan) - 15 vols. De luxe Ltd Ed 750 sets
The Scholar Gypsy and Thyrsis (1910 Riccardi Press) + 100 numbered & signed by W Russell Flint
The Scholar-Gypsy (1933 Nicholson & Watson) - Frank Adams
The Note-Books (1952 Oxford)

READING
Thomas B Smart : The Bibliography of Matthew Arnold (1892 London)
George Saintsbury : Matthew Arnold (1899)
J Fitch : Great Educators - Thomas & Matthew Arnold (1899 London)
Lucy E Roberts : Resume of Matthew Arnold's Reports on Elementary Education
(1908 Harvey, Cheltenham)
(Ed) Howard Foster Lowry : The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough (1932 OUP)
Lionel Trilling : Matthew Arnold (1939)
E K Brown : Matthew Arnold - A Study in Conflict (1948 Chicago)
Patrick J McCarthy : Matthew Arnold and the Three Classes (1964 NY)
Edward Alexander : Matthew Arnold and John Stuart Mill (1965)
M Trevor : The Arnolds (1973 London)
A L Rowse : Matthew Arnold - Poet & Prophet (1976 Thames & Hudson)
Park Honan : Matthew Arnold - A Life (1981 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £9.95)
Nicholas Murray : A Life of Matthew Arnold (1996 Hodder & Stoughton £20)
(1997 St Martin's Press, NY $27.95)
Ian Hamilton : A Gift Imprisoned - The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold
(1998 Bloomsbury £18)