Matthew Arnold

• 1822 – 1888 heart failure
• Dover Beach – 1867
• Sage writer meaning he instructed social issues
• Discusses social issues through economics, politics, philosophy and history non technically
• Involved in government – served as a private secretary for Lord Lansdowne
• Appointed as Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools 1851
• Married Frances Lucy and had six children
• Criticized religion – Literature and Dogma He was known for his ‘self-censorship’ Was a literary critic as well as a poet
• He was known for his ‘self-censorship’
• Was a literary critic as well as a poet