Culture and Anarchy and Other Selected Prose
'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class' 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-241-38801-3
- EAN: 9780241388013
- Produktnummer: 28695054
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'659 KB
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Matthew Arnold
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