Educated at Rugby, where his father Thomas Arnold was head master, and at Oxford, Arnold spent a number of years after graduation travelling before publishing his first collection, The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849). His subsequent publication of Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852) and Poems (1853) established him as a leading poet of his day. In 1851, Arnold took a position as a school inspector, which he continued to hold until two years before his death. From 1857 to 1867, Arnold was also Professor of Poetry at Oxford, becoming the first professor to lecture in English rather than Latin. Arnold became a very influential social and literary critic and produced a large quantity of prose works in addition to his poetry. These works included Essays in Criticism (1865), Culture and Anarchy (1869), Literature and Dogma (1873), The Study of Poetry (1880), Discourses in America (1885) and Civilization in the United States (1888). |
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