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Publication of this edition of all the known letters of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) is an intellectual event of major importance. When complete in six volumes the edition will present close to four thousand letters, nearly five times the number in G. W. E. Russell's two-volume compilation of 1895. Many of the letters appear in their entirety here for the first time. Renowned as a poet and critic, Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. Volume I begins in 1829 with an account of the Arnold children by their father, the notable headmaster of Rugby School, and closes in 1859, when, already a poet and literary critic, Matthew Arnold returned to England after several months on a government educational commission in Europe to find himself acquiring a European reputation. The letters show him as a child; a schoolboy at Winchester and Rugby; a foppish Oxonian; a worldly young man in a perfect, undemanding job; then as a new husband in an imperfect, too-demanding job; Professor of Poetry at Oxford; and finally as an emergent European critic. The letters, with a consecutiveness rare in such editions, are both meaty and delightful, and they contain a great deal of new information about Arnold and his family, both personal (sometimes intimate) and professional. Two new diaries are included, a long, boyish travelogue-letter and a mature essay-letter on architecture, never before recognized as Arnold's, as well as a handful of letters written to Arnold.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... To his Wife. Rome, May 27, 1865. We got to Rome about twelve. It was pitch dark, and only omnibuses; I got here about a quarter to one and was comfortably lodged immediately. I found that letters would not go to-night so I did not write. I must say, I am at present more oppressed by Rome and by the sense of my want of time, than enchanted. I found Odo Russell gone to the country, but he was to return to-day, and has just left his card while I was out. I want to see the great Jesuit school now I am here. Yesterday I went to St. Peter's and saw the Pope, and all the Cardinals; tell Tommy the horses, carriages, and costumes are beautiful, it was the fete of St. Philip Neri, the patron saint of Rome, so everything was closed except the churches. I stayed a long time in St. Peter's, came back here to the four o'clock table d'hote, and went afterwards with a French doctor from Havre, a very pleasant man, to the Pincian, with which I was disappointed, one has such a very imperfect view of Rome. It is a glorious place, but it overwhelms me. This morning I was up early, and have done a great deal since; I have kept myself to ancient Rome, the Capitol, Capitoline Museum (where the "Dying Gladiator" is), the Forum, the Palace of Nero and Baths of Titus, the Baths of Caracalla, the Temple of Vesta, the Theatre of Marcellus, the Coliseum. To-night I go to the Janiculan for a view of Rome and the country round. To-morrow I go to the Basilicas. The sun is tremendous, but the air is fresh. I think of you all continually. Write in a day or two after getting this to the Hotel Feder, Genoa. To the Same. Naples {May 1865). When I wrote to you the other day I was feeling very unwell and knocked up, but I am much better now and have got through my work here....
Arnold inquires about schools for his two sons in 1867; regrets a meeting in 1888 and states that the "reckless multiplication of children, without the means to maintain and bring them up properly [is] irrational and disastrous"; and in two undated letters seconds a candidate for the Athenaeum and clarifies some visiting and lecture arrangements in Boston.
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