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- catalog abstract ""Matthew Arnold had two lives. In his later years, he was Victorian England's best-known social prophet, educational reformer, and literary critic. In his youth, he was an impassioned lyric poet, deeply at odds with his "damned times". Arnold's poetic life - the life that gave us "Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Empedocles on Etna" - was effectively over by the age of forty, when he began to devote all his energies to "purposeful" prose composition." "For about twenty years, however, he made efforts to resist his destiny, and this book is the story of that losing battle. As a biographical narrative, A Gift Imprisoned confronts a number of intriguing puzzles. Chief among these, of course, is the much-pondered Marguerite. Who was she: a dream-girl, an invention born of too much exposure to the novels of George Sand, or a real person met in Switzerland in 1848? Then there is Dr. Arnold himself: a devitalizing ogre or an inspiration? And, overarchingly, there is the matter of Arnold's attitude to his own gifts as a poet: Why did he so early on abandon the poetic life and settle for three decades of drudgery as an inspector of elementary schools? Was it really a fierce love of duty that took him down this path - or was it, rather, that he all along had insufficient faith in his own talent? And this leads to the question that matters most of all: How much faith do we and should we have in his talent?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Matthew Arnold".
- catalog alternative "Poetic life of Matthew Arnold".
- catalog contributor b11304803.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""Matthew Arnold had two lives. In his later years, he was Victorian England's best-known social prophet, educational reformer, and literary critic. In his youth, he was an impassioned lyric poet, deeply at odds with his "damned times". Arnold's poetic life - the life that gave us "Dover Beach," "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Empedocles on Etna" - was effectively over by the age of forty, when he began to devote all his energies to "purposeful" prose composition." "For about twenty years, however, he made efforts to resist his destiny, and this book is the story of that losing battle. As a biographical narrative, A Gift Imprisoned confronts a number of intriguing puzzles. Chief among these, of course, is the much-pondered Marguerite. Who was she: a dream-girl, an invention born of too much exposure to the novels of George Sand, or a real person met in Switzerland in 1848? Then there is Dr. Arnold himself: a devitalizing ogre or an inspiration? And, overarchingly, there is the matter of Arnold's attitude to his own gifts as a poet: Why did he so early on abandon the poetic life and settle for three decades of drudgery as an inspector of elementary schools? Was it really a fierce love of duty that took him down this path - or was it, rather, that he all along had insufficient faith in his own talent? And this leads to the question that matters most of all: How much faith do we and should we have in his talent?"--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 241 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Gift imprisoned.".
- catalog identifier "0465044212".
- catalog isFormatOf "Gift imprisoned.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Basic Books,".
- catalog relation "Gift imprisoned.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "Arnold, Matthew, 1822-1888.".
- catalog subject "Critics Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR4023 .H27 1999".
- catalog subject "Poets, English 19th century Biography.".
- catalog title "A gift imprisoned : the poetic life of Matthew Arnold / Ian Hamilton.".
- catalog title "Matthew Arnold".
- catalog title "Poetic life of Matthew Arnold".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".