Matthew Arnold's Essays: Literary and Critical (Everyman's Library, No. 115)

xiii, 380, 4 pp. CONTENTS: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time; The Literary Influence of Academies; Maurice de Guerin; Eugenie de Guerin; Heinrich Heine; Pagan and Christian Religious Sentiment; Joubert; or a French Coleridge; A Word More About Spinoza; Marcus Aurelius; On Translating Homer; Newman's Reply; Last Words on Translating Homer. Matthew Arnold, (born December 24, 1822, Laleham, Middlesex, England—died April 15, 1888, Liverpool), English Victorian poet and literary and social critic, noted especially for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes and manners of the “Barbarians” (the aristocracy), the “Philistines” (the commercial middle class), and the “Populace.” He became the apostle of “culture” in such works as Culture and Anarchy (1869).--Britannica