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Arnold’s years at Balliol College (1841–4) were decisive for his subsequent literary career and the formation of his mature thought. This is not to say that he was very successful as a student. Arnold went into residence at Oxford after distinguishing himself at Rugby and winning an open scholarship, but his formal studies seemed to stagnate at Balliol. He earned a reputation there not as a scholar but as a dandified dresser, a flippant wit, and an avid fisherman and whist player. He ended by obtaining a disappointing second-class BA in ‘Greats’.
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The most influential general study of Arnold’s poetic imagery is A. Dwight Culler’s Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of Matthew Arnold ( New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1966 ).
F. R. Leavis, ‘Literary Studies’, in Education and the University ( London: Chatto & Windus, 1943 ), pp. 66–86.
See, for example, Leon Gottfried, Matthew Arnold and the Romantics ( Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963 ).
See, for example, E. D. H. Johnson, The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952 ).
C. B. Tinker and H. F. Lowry, The Poetry of Matthew Arnold: A Commentary ( London: Oxford University Press, 1940 ), p. 291.
See Vinod Sena, ‘W. B. Yeats, Matthew Arnold, and the Critical Imperative’, Victorian Newsletter, 56 (1979), 10–14.
Walter Bagehot, ‘Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning’, in Literary Studies (London: J. M. Dent, 1911 ), II, 316.
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Machann, C. (1998). The Strayed Reveller (1849),Empedocles on Etna (1852), Poems (1853). In: Matthew Arnold. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371583_2
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