Matthew Arnold  Victorian

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- Carlyle's chief successor in prescribing remedies for the ills of the age (Horton 642)

- society's main problem - replacing old faith with a religion more intellectually respectable and equally able to restrain and console; humanism based on "the best that has been said and thought in the world" (642)

- remedy - religion of culture (642)

Works

- Culture and Anarchy - states alternatives facing a religionless society at time of political upheaval: culture or anarchy

- "Dover Beach" - most successful poem; faithfulness is the only happiness (642)

Citation

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1992.