Sources, Influences, Confluences, and Contrasts
- The Bible
- Bhagavad Gita
- Thomas Carlyle
- Mathew Arnold's Complex Relation to Carlyle
- Carlyle's Influence
- Carlyle (and Mill) anticipate interest in historical periods of expansion and contraction
- "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" and Carlyle's "Characteristics"
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Charles Kingsley
- John McPhee
- John Henry Newman
- DeLaura on Newman and Arnold (extended discussion)
- Apologia Pro Vita Sua renews Arnold's interest in Newman
- Arnold's Religous Belief
- Skepticism about metaphysical propositions
- "Function of Criticism" fundamentally indebted to Newman
- Influence of An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)
- Newman and the Center of the Arnoldian Vision
- Walter Pater
- John Ruskin
- Contrast to Ruskin (on Dante's allegory)
- T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets
- Walter Pater DeLaura on Arnold and Pater
- Sainte-Beuve
- Sophocles
Miscellaneous
- "Empedocles on Etna" and Varney the Vampire, or The Feast of Blood
- Reviving God: a study of Matthew Arnold and Gerard Manley Hopkins’
- Religion as the Key to Culture: an Arnoldian Interpretation of Victorian Texts
- Arnold does not share Browning's and Tennyson's radical struggle to alter the greater romantic lyric
Arnold's Critical Reception and Reputation — Then and Now
- Arnold's Reputation as a Poet
- W. E. Henley on Arnold's works
- Henry James on Arnold's Essays in Criticism.
- Arnold as an "elegant Jeremiah"
Last modified 6 December 2012