Culture and anarchy and other selected prose /
by Arnold, Matthew.
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BookSeries: Penguin classics: Publisher: London : Penguin Classics, 2015Description: 480 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780141396248 (pbk.) :; 0141396245 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 306.0941 ARNUniform titles: Essays. Selections.Subject(s): Literature | LiteratureSummary: Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness and light' of classical civilization - were essential to human life. The other pieces here, on literary criticism, schools, France, journalism and democracy, form a powerful call to arms from a writer who believed that the English needed to be taught not what to think, but how to think.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 306.0941 ARN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003115518X |
Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness and light' of classical civilization - were essential to human life. The other pieces here, on literary criticism, schools, France, journalism and democracy, form a powerful call to arms from a writer who believed that the English needed to be taught not what to think, but how to think.
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