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Essays in Criticism

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  • Matthew Arnold
    In Matthew Arnold: Arnold as critic

    …early put into currency in Essays in Criticism (First Series, 1865; Second Series, 1888) and Culture and Anarchy. The first essay in the 1865 volume, “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” is an overture announcing briefly most of the themes he developed more fully in later work. It…

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