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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Matthew Arnold
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(1822–88)
Poet and critic, son of the Rugby headmaster, Thomas Arnold. His professional career was as an inspector of schools. Poetry was a main concern in the first half of his life (The Scholar-Gipsy 1853, Dover Beach 1867), but he turned later to wide-ranging works of prose criticism. The most influential of these has been Culture and Anarchy (1869), a collection of essays analysing the cultural and educational needs of a healthy society.
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