He describes culture as the pursuit of perfection which enables us to examine stock habits and rethink things – as a way out of “present difficulties”. Arnold’s crusading zeal for culture, and its concomitant civilising influence, led him to write a book about the significance of culture in society, and how it might hold back the forces of anarchy. Culture and Anarchy is by far his most well-known prose work today. Arnold, with the splendid whiskers, was one of the Victorian greats: a poet, critic, essayist and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Since this blog is named after it, I thought I should devote a page to the book by Matthew Arnold.
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