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Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language (Hardcover)
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Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of Language (Hardcover)
Series: Victorian Literature and Culture Series
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Matthew Arnold was one of the nineteenth century's greatest
spokesmen for the saving power of culture, especially of poetry, to
substitute for a vanishing religion. Yet he was persistently
troubled throughout his career by the difficulty of finding
adequate authority in language. Matthew Arnold and the Betrayal of
Language explores Arnold's attempts to find an authoritative
language, and argues that his occasional claims for such a language
reveal more uneasiness than confidence in the value of ""letters.""
It examines Arnold's poetry within this context and demonstrates
that his various experiments - to speak in oracular voice, to use
classic forms, to achieve a grand style - and their failures,
reflect the inevitable difficulties facing any poet in an age of
intellectual and cultural upheaval. Riede argues that Arnold's
determined efforts to write with authority, combined with his
deep-seated suspicion of his medium, result in an exciting if often
agonized tension in his poetic language - a language that strains
against its inevitable but generally unacknowledged limitations.
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