...hexameter. The " Essays in Criticism," a collection of articles and lectures, appeared in 1865 ; " a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," as he himself defined them. Mr. Arnold was re-elected at the end of his five years,...

...for I am afraid I must disappoint these expectations. I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and tfiought in the world. How much of current English literature comes into this " best that is known...

...but also wide and varied. For, as Matthew Arnold put it, the critic's duty is to give himself up to "a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." His aim must therefore be to know all the literatures that are worth knowing ; an unattainable...

...in general, its course is determined for it by the idea which is the law of its being; the idea of a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current of fresh and true ideas. By the very nature of things,...

...the fairness of whip h no one would dream of questioning ; his chief motive was, in his own words, " a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." One \v«mld expect, accordingly, to find Arnold's style notable for clearness, lucidity,...

...serious subject" (On Translating Homer), that "criticism [in a larger sense than as used above] is a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world " (On the Function of Criticism at the Present Time), or for example of explanation of...

...disappoint these expectations. I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endea\ovour to learn and propagate the best that is known and...I fear certainly less, at this moment, than of the curreru 15 literature of France or Germ'any. Well, then, am I to alter my definition of criticism,...

...in general, its course is determined for it by the idea which is the law of its being ; the idea of a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world, and thus to establish a current tS of fresh and true ideas. By the very nature of things,...

...knowledge, admitting of comparisons, is necessary as the equipment of a critic. Criticism he defined as " a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world." Matthew Arnold had other claims as a prose writer. His appeal for the study of Celtic...

...in general, its course is determined for it by the idea which is the law of its being ; the idea of a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and Itliought in the world, and thus to establish a current 25Jpf fresh and true ideas. By the very nature...