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Matthew Arnold foi um poeta e crítico britânico, um dos críticos literários e de costumes em que a Inglaterra Vitoriana melhor se espelha. Matthew Arnold foi um poeta prolífico e um intelectual voltado para a democratização do ensino.

Matthew Arnold nasceu em Laleham e era tio-avô de Aldous Huxley e primogênito de Thomas Arnold, diretor da célebre escola de Rugby. Formou-se em Oxford , onde ocupou mais tarde, de 1857 a 1867, a cátedra de poesia. Através de um idealismo de fundo ainda romântico, Arnold tornou-se moralista ,expondo seus métodos e critérios nos Essays in Criticism , onde exige da obra de arte a "crítica da vida" e a "alta seriedade".

Examinou o agnosticismo em Literature and Dogma - an Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible. Vendo na estreiteza do puritanismo e no unitarismo econômico os dois grandes inimigos da europeização da cultura inglesa, combateu-os em Culture and Anarchy , ensaio sobre crítica e política social .

Um tom erudito manteve-se nas suas obras poéticas, reunidas em Poems e New poems .

Matthew Arnold morreu em Liverpool em 15 de abril de 1888. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Dezembro 1822 – 15. Abril 1888
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Matthew Arnold Frases famosas

“O poeta não exagera profundamente, mas amplamente.”

Matthew Arnold

“Para criar uma obra-prima da literatura, dois poderes precisam estar presentes: o poder do homem e o poder do momento.”

Matthew Arnold

“Apenas aqueles que nada esperam do azar são donos do destino.”

Matthew Arnold

Variante: Somente aqueles que nada esperam do acaso são donos do destino.

“A cultura é a busca da nossa perfeição total mediante a tentativa de conhecer o melhor possível o que foi dito ou pensado no mundo, em todas as questões que nos dizem respeito.”

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold: Frases em inglês

“Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.”

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Matthew Arnold

Diary entry for the day he died (15 April 1888); from Ecclesiasticus, xxxviii
Matthew Arnold's Notebooks (1902)

“And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.”

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Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

St. 2
Thyrsis (1866)

“The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.”

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Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

St. 3
Dover Beach (1867)

“O strong soul, by what shore
Tarriest thou now? For that force,
Surely, has not been left vain!”

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Matthew Arnold

St. 4
Rugby Chapel (1867)

“And amongst us one,
Who most has suffer’d, takes dejectedly
His seat upon the intellectual throne.”

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St. 19
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

“The notion of the free play of the mind upon all subjects being a pleasure in itself, being an object of desire, being an essential provider of elements without which a nation's spirit, whatever compensations it may have for them, must, in the long run, die of inanition, hardly enters into an Englishman's thoughts.”

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The Functions of Criticism at the Present Time (1864)

“Choose equality.”

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"Mixed Essays, Equality" (1879)

“People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is! Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.”

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Matthew Arnold

G.W.E. Russell, Collections and Recollections, ch. XIV, Harper & brothers, 1898, p. 136 https://archive.org/details/collectionsandr02russgoog/page/n152. Russell states that was said to him by Arnold himself.
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“Because without order there can be no society, and without society there can be no human perfection.”

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Matthew Arnold livro Culture and Anarchy

Fonte: Culture and Anarchy (1869), p. 41

“Hear it, O Thyrsis, still our tree is there!”

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Matthew Arnold Thyrsis

Ah, vain! These English fields, this upland dim,
These brambles pale with mist engarlanded,
That lone, sky-pointing tree, are not for him;
To a boon southern country he is fled,
And now in happier air,
Wandering with the great Mother’s train divine
(And purer or more subtle soul than thee,
I trow, the mighty Mother doth not see)
Within a folding of the Apennine.
St. 18
Thyrsis (1866)

“Steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side?”

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nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tübingen. Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines! home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
Preface to the Second Edition (1869)
Essays in Criticism (1865)

“The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty.”

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Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
"Schools and Universities on the Continent" (1868)

“Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanch'd land,Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.”

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Matthew Arnold Dover Beach

St. 1
Dover Beach (1867)

“But — if you cannot give us ease —
Last of the race of them who grieve
Here leave us to die out with these
Last of the people who believe!
Silent, while years engrave the brow;
Silent — the best are silent now. Achilles ponders in his tent,
The kings of modern thought are dumb,
Silent they are though not content,
And wait to see the future come.
They have the grief men had of yore,
But they contend and cry no more.”

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Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

“Forgive me, masters of the mind!
At whose behest I long ago
So much unlearnt, so much resign'd —
I come not here to be your foe!
I seek these anchorites, not in ruth,
To curse and to deny your truth; Not as their friend, or child, I speak!
But as, on some far northern strand,
Thinking of his own Gods, a Greek
In pity and mournful awe might stand
Before some fallen Runic stone —
For both were faiths, and both are gone.”

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Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse (1855)

“And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know,
Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure,
Didst tread on earth unguess'd at.”

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Matthew Arnold

Better so! </p><p> All pains the immortal spirit must endure,
All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow,
Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.</p>
"Shakespeare" (1849)