The Touchstones of Matthew Arnold |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 29
Page 86
... grief , therefore - with grief akin to that which assailed the heart of Ugolino when he saw the hand of death over " Anselmuccio mio " and his sons , Arnold was only too well acquainted . It is , then , not unreasonable to infer that ...
... grief , therefore - with grief akin to that which assailed the heart of Ugolino when he saw the hand of death over " Anselmuccio mio " and his sons , Arnold was only too well acquainted . It is , then , not unreasonable to infer that ...
Page 88
... grief , and not of that “ buon dolor ch ' a Dio ne rimarita , ” ) is in no sense characteristic of the Divine Comedy . The power of allusion latent in this touchstone must , therefore , in so far as Dante's poem is concerned , have been ...
... grief , and not of that “ buon dolor ch ' a Dio ne rimarita , ” ) is in no sense characteristic of the Divine Comedy . The power of allusion latent in this touchstone must , therefore , in so far as Dante's poem is concerned , have been ...
Page 210
... grief such as Arnold himself had all too often experienced . His habitual melancholy , moreover , tended , at moments of extreme personal grief or times of great intellectual stress , to verge on a desperation not unlike Ugolino's . The ...
... grief such as Arnold himself had all too often experienced . His habitual melancholy , moreover , tended , at moments of extreme personal grief or times of great intellectual stress , to verge on a desperation not unlike Ugolino's . The ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
Copyright | |
13 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
allusiveness appear Arnold's mind Arnold's poetry Arnold's verse Arnoldean Balder beauty Celtic Ceres chapter characteristic of Arnold Chaucer context courage criticism Dante Dante's death Divine Comedy earth Empedocles entry essay expression feel felicity formal prose fortitude grace grand style grief habit Hamlet heart heaven high seriousness I. A. Richards ibid Iliad Inferno instance invictus King Henry Lacedaemon lack Laleham Letters to Clough literature live Loeb Matthew Arnold Maurice de Guérin melancholy Milton misery moral moreover need for peace never notebooks pain Paradise Lost pathetic pathos Peleus personal estimate phrases Piccarda poem poet poetic Priam quoted reader reference reflected repose reveal Rustum Satan says Arnold seems sense Shakespeare Sophocles sorrow soul spirit stanza stone Study of Poetry Temple Classics things thou thought tion touch touchstone lines touchstone mood touchstone passage touchstone verses transl Translating Homer Trilling Ugolino's utterance Virgil virtue Wisdom Zeus