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Matthew Arnold – One Liner

  1. Matthew Arnold started his career as: Inspector of Schools.
  2. hearing of the death of Arnold in an accident, a certain critic remarked: “there goes our last Greek”
  3. Matthew Arnold rose to the position of Chairmanship of Poetry at: Oxford University.
  4. Arnold won a prize at Rugby School for his poem: Alaric at rome.
  5. According to Arnold, who is next to Shakespeare and Milton? Wordsworth.
  6. Arnold defined poetry thus: “Poetry is a criticism of life, under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of Poetic truth and poetic beauty. Where this definition is given: Essay on The Study of Poetry.
  7. “Others abide our question. Thou art free. / We ask and ask: Thou smilest and art still, / Out-topping knowledge.” In these lines written by Arnold, ‘Thou’ refers to: Shakespeare.
  8. “Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.” In which poem does this line occur? Sohrab and Rustum.
  9. Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of: Theology.
  10. Matthew Arnold’s Thyrsis is an elegy on the death of: A.H. Clough
  11. The basic theme of Arnold’s literature and Dogma is: theology and Religion
  12. Philistines in Culture and Anarchy stand for: The English Middle Class
  13. the story of Sohrab and Rustum is taken from: Firdausi
  14. Arnold calls a certain poet “a beautiful but ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.” Who is this poet? Shelley.
  15. For Matthew Arnold “a poetry of revolt against more ideas” is: A poetry of revolt against life.
  16. In which chapter of Culture and Anarchy does Arnold mention Hebraism and Hellenism? Chapter IV
  17. Empedocles on Etna is a: Dramatic Poem.
  18. Arnold said about a poet: “With him is born our real poetry.” Who is the poet referred to? Chaucer.
  19. Who calls Arnold “a propagandist of literature” and “an overworked school-inspector’? T.S. Eliot.
  20. Arnold said about a poet, “His poetry is the reality, his philosophy is the illusion.” About which poet does he make this observation? Wordsworth.
  21. Who is of the view that “Matthew Arnold thinks too much of the uses of literature and too little of its pleasure”? H.W. Garrod.
  22. What kind of work is Arnold’s Merope? A dramatic poem.
  23. What kind of work is Arnold’s The Strayed Reveller? A poem through dialogues.
  24. “Wandering between two worlds, one dead, / the other powerless to be born, / With nowhere yet to rest my head.” lines from: Grande Chartreuse
  25. “O strong soul, by what shore / Tarriest thou now? For that force, / Surely, has not been left vain!” About his father in the elegy Rugby Chapel.
  26. “for what wears out the life of mortal men? /iTis that from change to change their being rolls: / iTis that repeated shocks, again, again, / Exhaust the energy of the strongest souls.” lines from: The Scholar Gipsy.
  27. “Why faintest thou? I wandered till I died, / Roam on! the light we sought is shining still, / Dost thou ask proof? our tree yet crowns the hill, / Our scholar travels yet the loved hill.” lines from: Thyrsis.
  28. “And we are here as on a darkling plain, / Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, / Where ignorant armies clash by night.” lines from: Dover Beach.
  29. Which poem won Arnold the Oxford prize? Cromwell.
  30. “Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole; / The mellow glory of the Attic stage, / Singer of sweet colonus and its child.” to a Friend.
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