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In Nobody Really Has Their Sh*t Together, illustrator star Luke
John Matthew Arnold shares his no-bullshit, somewhat
inspirational and very hilarious doodles. This bold
little book is a beautiful gift for yourself or anyone you
love, to bring a smile in tough moments. For most of us,
every day comes with a new set of ‘holy shits’ and ‘what the
fucks’. But as a fella who lives with OCD and anxiety while also
being an artist, Luke John Matthew Arnold often couldn't
afford a shrink. So instead, he started doodling. These cute
doodles hugged Luke's eyeballs, kissed
his heart and spanked his negative thinking on
the big ol’ bum. These doodles have helped him traverse
through the deepest of shit puddles and come out the other side –
moist and smelly, but okay. And now they're in a book. Nobody
Really Has Their Sh*t Together is here for you to open
at any page, any time, with the comfort of knowing that whatever
doodle you look at is totally cheese-free, somewhat
absurd and has worked to cheer up one person
(Luke). Hopefully you're number two.
Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects. The introduction sets these works in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names and historical events mentioned in the texts.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, culture was often
considered to be nothing but a meaningless 'smattering of Latin and
Greek'. In this work, first published in 1869, Matthew Arnold
(1822-88) redefines culture as a striving for 'the best that has
been thought or said', and as a contrast to 'philistinism' and the
over-valuation of the practical. Critical of the uninspiring
lifestyles of many of his religious and non-religious
contemporaries, he raises the controversial issue of how to lead a
good life, aesthetically, intellectually and morally. He introduces
a middle road between classical and Judaeo-Christian ideals
('Hellenism' and 'Hebraism') which promotes the state over the
individual, a position that has often prompted his critics to
consider him an authoritarian thinker. A fascinating piece of
social and political criticism, and an adjunct to Arnold's poetry,
this work was both controversial when it was first published, and
enormously influential thereafter.
Manifesting the special intelligence of a literary critic of
original gifts, Culture and Anarchy is still a living classic. It
is addressed to the flexible and the disinterested, to those who
are not committed to the findings of their particular discipline,
and it assumes in its reader a critical intelligence that will
begin its work with the reader himself. Arnold employs a delicate
and stringent irony in an examination of the society of his time: a
rapidly expanding industrial society, just beginning to accustom
itself to the changes in its institutions that the pace of its own
development called for. Coming virtually at the end of the decade
(1868) and immediately prior to W. E. Forster's Education Act,
Culture and Anarchy phrases with a particular cogency the problems
that find their centre in the questions: what kind of life do we
think individuals in mass societies should be assisted to lead? How
may we best ensure that the quality of their living is not
impoverished? Arnold applies himself to the detail of his time: to
the case of Mr Smith 'who feared he would come to poverty and be
eternally lost', to the Reform agitation, to the commercial values
that working people were encouraged to respect, and to the
limitations of even the best Rationalist intelligence. The degree
of local reference is therefore high, but John Dover Wilson's
introduction and notes to this edition supply valuable assistance
to a reader fresh to the period.
The University Press of Virginia edition of "The Letters of
Matthew Arnold, "edited by Cecil Y. Lang, represents the most
comprehensive and assiduously annotated collection of Arnold's
correspondence available. When complete in six volumes, this
edition will include close to four thousand letters, nearly five
times the number in G.W.E. Russell's two-volume compilation of
1895. The letters, at once meaty and delightful, appear with a
consecutiveness rare in such editions, and they contain a great
deal of new information, both personal (sometimes intimate) and
professional. Two new diaries are included, a handful of letters to
Matthew Arnold, and many of his own that will appear in their
entirety here for the first time. Renowned as a poet and critic,
Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. Nowhere else is
Arnold's appreciation of life and literature so extravagantly
evident as in his correspondence. His letters amplify the dark
vision of his own verse, as well as the moral background of his
criticism. As Cecil Lang writes, the letters "may well be the
finest portrait of an age and of a person, representing the main
movements of mind and of events of nearly half a century and at the
same time revealing the intimate life of the participant-observer,
in any collection of letters in the nineteenth century, possibly in
existence."
In this final volume of the Virginia edition of Arnold's
letters, Arnold joins for the last time a Royal Commission on
Education, traveling first to Germany, and then on to Switzerland
and Paris. Following his wife and younger daughter, Arnold also
makes his second American visit, this time to see "the Midget," his
first grandchild. Both missions reveal his well-known and
characteristic zest for people and places--new acquaintances, new
scenery, the total experience of living--observing, absorbing,
recording, and moving on.
Finally, with maximum nostalgia and minimum regret, he resigns
the inspectorship of schools in which he had spent nearly all of
his adult existence and settles down, in sweet, bucolic content, to
the life of a country squire. Then, tragically, abruptly, and
predictably, it screeches to a halt. Manifestly, he had lived daily
with intimations of mortality.
The series-cumulative index included with this volume is an
invaluable resource for tracking Arnold's records of his active
life.
The University Press of Virginia edition of "The Letters of
Matthew Arnold, "edited by Cecil Y. Lang, represents the most
comprehensive and assiduously annotated collection of Arnold's
correspondence available. When complete in six volumes, this
edition will include close to four thousand letters, nearly five
times the number in G.W.E. Russell's two-volume compilation of
1895. The letters, at once meaty and delightful, appear with a
consecutiveness rare in such editions, and they contain a great
deal of new information, both personal (sometimes intimate) and
professional. Two new diaries are included, a handful of letters to
Matthew Arnold, and many of his own that will appear in their
entirety here for the first time. Renowned as a poet and critic,
Arnold will be celebrated now as a letter writer. Nowhere else is
Arnold's appreciation of life and literature so extravagantly
evident as in his correspondence. His letters amplify the dark
vision of his own verse, as well as the moral background of his
criticism. As Cecil Lang writes, the letters "may well be the
finest portrait of an age and of a person, representing the main
movements of mind and of events of nearly half a century and at the
same time revealing the intimate life of the participant-observer,
in any collection of letters in the nineteenth century, possibly in
existence."
The letters in this volume show Arnold, now midway in his
professional career, publishing his first volume of poems in a
decade and emerging as a critic--simultaneously--of society, of
education, of religion, and, as always, of politics. In 1867 he
published New Poems, containing several of his best-known and most
beloved works, "Dover Beach," "Thyrsis," "Stanzas from the Grand
Chartreuse" and many others, including the first reprint since 1852
of "Empedocles on Etna," and in 1869 Culture and Anarchy, of which
the germ is visible in a remarkable letter to his mother in 1867,
as well as the influential reports on continental schools, and the
seminal St. Paul and Protestantism.
The marvelous letters to his mother and other family members
continue unabated; two of his sons die, their deaths recorded in
wrenching accents; his essays, possibly by design, draw flak from
all directions, which Arnold evades (any poet to any critic) as
adroitly or disarmingly as usual; for two years he takes into his
home an Italian prince; and he is awarded an honorary Oxford
degree. He remains in every way both Establishment and
anti-Establishment, both courteous, as has been said, and something
better than courteous: honest.
'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is
anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is
really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class.'
Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of
Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial society
in 'bondage to machinery' and argued instead that the wonder and
joy of culture - in particular the 'sweetness and light' of
classical civilization - were essential to human life. The other
pieces here, on literary criticism, schools, France, journalism and
democracy, form a powerful call to arms from a writer who believed
that the English needed to be taught not what to think, but how to
think. Edited with an introduction by P. J. Keating.
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