CHAPTER III.

ENGLISH CRITICISM—1860-1900.

Matthew Arnold: one of the greater critics 515

His position defined early 516

The _Preface_ of 1853 517

Analysis of it 517

And interim summary of its gist 520

Contrast with Dryden 520

Chair-work at Oxford, and contributions to periodicals 521

_On Translating Homer_ 522

The “grand style” 522

Discussion of it 523

The Study of Celtic Literature 526

Its assumptions 527

The _Essays_: their case for Criticism 527

Their examples thereof 529

The latest work 530

The Introduction to Ward’s _English Poets_ 531

“Criticism of Life” 531

Poetic Subject or Poetic Moment 532

Arnold’s accomplishment and position as a critic 534

The Carlylians 537

Kingsley 538

Froude 539

Mr Buskin 539

G. H. Lewes 540

His _Principles of Success in Literature_ 540

His _Inner Life of Art_ 542

Bagehot 542

R. H. Hutton 543

His evasions of literary criticism 544

Pater 544

His frank Hedonism 545

His _polytechny_ and his style 545

His formulation of the new critical attitude 546

_The Renaissance_ 546

Objections to its process 547

Importance of _Marius the Epicurean_ 547

_Appreciations_ and the “_Guardian_” Essays 548

Universality of his method 551

Mr J. A. Symonds 551

Thomson (“B. V.”) 552

William Minto 553

His books on English Prose and Poetry 554

H. D. Traill 554

His critical strength 555

On Sterne and Coleridge 555

_Essays on Fiction_ 556

“The Future of Humour” 556

Others: Mansel, Venables, Stephen, Lord Houghton, Pattison, Church, &c. 557

Patmore 558

Mr Edmund Gurney 559

_The Power of Sound_ 559

_Tertium Quid_ 560