... Legacy. By Laurence W. Mazzeno. Rochester, New York: C am den House, 1999. Pp.xvi + 170. $55.157113-278-31. This book s subtitle could mislead: it m ight suggest, for in­ stance, that it s about critical m ethods th at A rnold left to later students of literature. Actually, the book is a review...

... in America, w here life is fo u n d ed on dem ocratic principles and characterized by close association with the land (xxix). MATTHEW ARNOLD S RUGBY CHAPEL AND THOMAS ARNOLD S TRAVEL JOURNALS Matthew A rnold s m em orial verses for his father, Rugby Chapel: November, 1857, have prom pted two kinds...

... in the Preface to the first edition o f M atthew A rnold s Poems (1853). A rnold excluded his Empedocles on Etna from this volum e as he had come to find its tone morose. His newly considered stance regarding the purpose o f poetry draws on Aristotle s Poetics with its emphasis on the primacy of action...

... before the en trancéd eye Visions o f long ago com e fleeting by, O ft o er thy hills an d glittering plains afar Gleams the wild pom p o f oriental war. Matthew A rnold1 In 1838, young Matthew A rnold and his siblings launched the Fox Magazine, and the second issue of th at production (January 1839...

... the Living Fang, American Literature, 11 (1939), 72. T he collection is w ritten in the tradition o f w hat T h o rp e him self called a reco rd o f th e m ysteries of nature. For fu rth e r discussion of this tradition an d its influence on Twain, see St. G eorge Tucker A rnold, Jr., T he Twain Bestiary...

... The Young Philosopher (cited above), ho p e in the novel lies in America, w here life is fo u n d ed on dem ocratic principles and characterized by close association with the land (xxix). MATTHEW ARNOLD S RUGBY CHAPEL AND THOMAS ARNOLD S TRAVEL JOURNALS Matthew A rnold s m em orial verses for his father...

.... 468. he. $69.50. 0-87413-816-7. Cook, Vivian. The English Writing System. London: A rnold Publishing, 2004. pb. $24.95. 0-340-80864-0. Daly, Nicholas. Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. Pp. viii + 161. he. $60.00. 0-521-83392-2. Dryden, Edgar A. Monumental...

... Faustian syllabuses, w hich in­ cluded studies in Italian, prepared for young Jane, Matthew, and Tom, by their father, Thom as A rnold, shortly after he was elected H eadm aster at Rugby School. 5In an analysis o f M atthew A rnold s early dislike an d distrust o f William Edward Forster, th e lean...

... Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 204 English Language Notes BOOKS RECEIVED Beal,Joan C. English in Modem Times, 1700-1945. London: A rnold Publications, 2004. Pp. ix + 264. pb. $24.95. 0-340-761172-2. Bone, D rum m ond, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Byron...

..., T he A ntifraternalism o f the Summoner s Tale,"JEPG 65 (1966): 688-700; P enn Szittya, The Antifraternal Tra- Septem ber 2001 11 dition in Medieval Literature (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986) 231-46; an d A rnold Williams, C haucer and the Friars, repr. in Chaucer Criticism I, eds. R. Schoeck a n...

..., Past, 57. 27 Carlyle, "Signs," 73. M atthew A rnold makes a very sim ilar argum ent in Culture and Anarchy, using Hellenism and Hebraism as his central terms. A rnold him self verges on Carlylean radicalism w hen he treats culture as a utopian alternative to gradual reform and to a perceived decline...

... typical and influential models are Milton s Lycidas, Dryden s To the Memory of Mr. Oldham , Shelley s Adonais, Tennyson s In Memoriam, and A rnold s Thyrsis. In all of these elegies and even in Gray s death is on a scale that can be imagined, represented, and accepted. But death in World War...

.... Truman State University A rnold W. Preussner Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition. ByAnneJanowitz. Cam­ bridge Studies in Romanticism 30. Cambridge: Cam bridge U ni­ versity Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 278. $59.95. 0521-57529A-2. A nne Janow itz s Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition has several...

.... 42 Ibid., 42. 43See fo r instance th e to u r in France in July 1841, Letters, 1.37-45, w here Dr. A rnold was accom panied bo th by M atthew an d T hom as A rn o ld the younger. 44 MS ARNOLD 1, f.2. 45 Ibid. THE IRONIC HERCULES REFERENCE IN DEATH OFA SALESMAN A lthough n o t an educated, erudite...

... to Jonson and Shakespeare specialists as well as to anyone interested in the field of literary biography. Truman State University A rnold W. Preussner Lyric and Labour in the Romantic Tradition. ByAnneJanowitz. Cam­ bridge Studies in Romanticism 30. Cambridge: Cam bridge U ni­ versity Press, 1998. Pp. xii...

... books, lectures and o th er treatm ents o f eddic texts ; works scrutinized range from the not-quite-ridiculous (children s literature) to the not-quitesublime (Matthew A rnold s Balder Dead o r B alderdash, as some unkindly called it). The third section of Wawn s book Philology and Mercury...

...Claudia Barnett Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 Decem ber 2002 57 3A rnold 665. 4A rnold 665 n. 5J o h n Pilling ed., Beckett s D ream Notebook (Reading: B eckett In tern atio n al F oundation, 1999) 140. 6Jam es Knowlson, The Life of Samuel Beckett (L ondon...

...-778. 16 M atthew A rnold, "OnTranslating Homer," The Complete Prose Works o f M a tthew A rnold, ed. R. H. Super, 11 vols. (Ann A rbor: U o f Michigan P, 1960-77) 1:146-47, 111, 188. 6 6 E n g l is h La n g u a g e N o t e s 44.1 S p r in g 2 0 0 6 17 Fish, S urprised b y Sin 49. 18 See Peter C...

..., Invent­ ing Maternity also looks at the cultural significance o f violence both against and within the m other/child dyad. Josephine M cD onagh s investigation of Infanticide and the Boundaries of Culture from Hum e to A rnold charts a transition from late eighteenth-century explanations of infanticide...

... onald L. Hill, ed. (Berkeley: U o f California P, 1980) xxi-xxii, 190. 10Matthew A rnold, CompleteProse Works, R. H. Super, ed. (Ann A rbor: U of M ichigan P, 1960-1977) ix, 163. 11 G erard Manley H opkins, Letters to Robert Bridges, Claude Colleer Abbott, ed. (London: O xford UP, 1955) 231. 12Further...