 Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...  Essays in Criticism - Page 46by Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1904 - 672 pages
...again in Matthew Arnold : ' The criticism which alone can much help us for the future is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and...to a joint action and working to a common result." In this direction Goethe worked more effectively than any other man. By his activity and fame, by his... | |
 | English periodicals - 1882 - 1028 pages
...expanded it by quoting some more words of mine, which are these : — * Europe is to be regarded as now being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...a common result ; and whose members have for their common outfit a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special local... | |
 | Elinor S. Shaffer, Elinor Shaffer - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 364 pages
...the sense that had been given to 'culture' : Let us conceive the whole group of civilised nations, as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...confederation bound to a joint action and working towards a common result. This was the ideal of Goethe, and it is an ideal which will impose itself... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 366 pages
...foreign thought; we shall invent the whole thing as we go along" (FC, 276) — and calls for "a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great federation . . . ; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and... | |
 | Clayton Koelb, Susan Noakes - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 392 pages
...Matthew Arnold, who in 1865 had envisioned "a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint...of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another."5 They, like Erich Auerbach and a number of other influential scholars trained in the universities... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 584 pages
...when so much stress is laid on the importance of criticism and the critical spirit, - is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and...to a joint action and working to a common result' ('The Function of Criticism', p. 29). What English poets needed was an infusion of Greek and French... | |
 | Franklin E. Court - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 236 pages
...Arnold wrote the following in "Wordsworth": "Let us conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past, out of... | |
 | Research and Education Association - Study Aids - 1994 - 334 pages
...thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards "Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual...a common result; and whose members have, for their common outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, 45 and of one another. Special,... | |
 | Carl Dawson, John Pfordresher - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 482 pages
...the world.' It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards 'Europe has being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...a common result; and whose members have, for their common outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local,... | |
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