- Matthew Arnold started his career as: Inspector of Schools.
- hearing of the death of Arnold in an accident, a certain critic remarked: “there goes our last Greek”
- Matthew Arnold rose to the position of Chairmanship of Poetry at: Oxford University.
- Arnold won a prize at Rugby School for his poem: Alaric at rome.
- According to Arnold, who is next to Shakespeare and Milton? Wordsworth.
- 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.
- “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.
- “Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.” In which poem does this line occur? Sohrab and Rustum.
- Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy deals with the subject of: Theology.
- Matthew Arnold’s Thyrsis is an elegy on the death of: A.H. Clough
- The basic theme of Arnold’s literature and Dogma is: theology and Religion
- Philistines in Culture and Anarchy stand for: The English Middle Class
- the story of Sohrab and Rustum is taken from: Firdausi
- Arnold calls a certain poet “a beautiful but ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.” Who is this poet? Shelley.
- For Matthew Arnold “a poetry of revolt against more ideas” is: A poetry of revolt against life.
- In which chapter of Culture and Anarchy does Arnold mention Hebraism and Hellenism? Chapter IV
- Empedocles on Etna is a: Dramatic Poem.
- Arnold said about a poet: “With him is born our real poetry.” Who is the poet referred to? Chaucer.
- Who calls Arnold “a propagandist of literature” and “an overworked school-inspector’? T.S. Eliot.
- Arnold said about a poet, “His poetry is the reality, his philosophy is the illusion.” About which poet does he make this observation? Wordsworth.
- 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.
- What kind of work is Arnold’s Merope? A dramatic poem.
- What kind of work is Arnold’s The Strayed Reveller? A poem through dialogues.
- “Wandering between two worlds, one dead, / the other powerless to be born, / With nowhere yet to rest my head.” lines from: Grande Chartreuse
- “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.
- “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.
- “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.
- “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.
- Which poem won Arnold the Oxford prize? Cromwell.
- “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.
Matthew Arnold – One Liner
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