Matthew Arnold Author

Gender: Male
Citizenship: England
Born: Dec 24, 1822
Died: Apr 15, 1888

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. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

knowledge

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

patience & sadness

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

religion

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

men

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

poetry

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

aging

Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

beauty & poetry

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

happiness