Matthew Arnold

Modern English Writers,
Other Volumes will be announced in due course.
William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and London
Matthew Arnold
George Saintsbury
Professor Of Rhetoric And English Literature In The University Of Edinburgh
Third Impression
William Blackwood and Sons
Edinburgh and London
MCMII
“Whoever comes to the Essay on Milton with the desire to get at the real truth about Milton, whether as a man or a poet, will feel that the essay in nowise helps him. A reader who only wants rhetoric, a reader who wants a panegyric on Milton, a panegyric on the Puritans, will find what he wants. A reader who wants criticism will be disappointed.”
I have endeavoured, in dealing with the master of all English critics in the latter half of the nineteenth century, to “help the reader who wants criticism.”