Matthew Arnold

He has reached an age and standing that allow for the rudest of one-liners, as when he calls Matthew Arnold "the most overrated of all critics, ever" – it's the petulant "ever" that truly endears – or laments "the egregious Edgar Allan Poe".

The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review 2011

His accusation and punishment constitute surely a great and significant action such as Matthew Arnold declared was alone of the highest and most permanent literary value.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

His accusation and punishment constitute surely a great and significant action such as Matthew Arnold declared was alone of the highest and most permanent literary value.

Oscar Wilde Harris, Frank 1916

His accusation and punishment constitute surely a great and significant action such as Matthew Arnold declared was alone of the highest and most permanent literary value.

Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions Harris, Frank 1910

Victorians, such as Matthew Arnold, saw literature as a moral force in a world increasingly uncertain about the security of religious faith, and the academic study of literature, new in the 19th century, took on this Messianic tinge.

Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885

Only one or two of them had an awakened human look in their eyes, such as Matthew Arnold delighted himself in finding so often in the school-children of France.

A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

Running for the thing isn't harmful, though for some, such as Matthew Arnold in 1888, it proved fatal.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

The poet Matthew Arnold made a prediction in the 1800s: "If ever the world sees a time when women will come together purely for the good of humanity, it will be a power as the world has never seen."

Birute Regine: 2012: The Gate to the Garden Is Open Birute Regine 2011

The poet Matthew Arnold made a prediction in the 1800s: "If ever the world sees a time when women will come together purely for the good of humanity, it will be a power as the world has never seen."

Birute Regine: 2012: The Gate to the Garden Is Open Birute Regine 2011

Matthew Arnold told the sceptical Victorians to read the Bible for its poetry; Frey, however, is lumpenly prosaic, unable to conceive of or communicate rapture.

The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey – review 2011