1840. Alaric at Rome. (Prize poem at Rugby.)
1843. Cromwell. (Prize poem at Oxford.)
1849. The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems.
Mycerinus.
The Strayed Reveller.
Fragment of an Antigone.
The Sick King in Bokhara.
Religious Isolation.
To my Friends.
A Modern Sappho.
The New Sirens.
The Voice.
To Fausta.
Stagyrus.
To a Gipsy Child.
The Hayswater Boat.
The Forsaken Merman.
The World and the Quietist.
In Utrumque Paratus.
Resignation.
Sonnets.
Quiet Work.
To a Friend.
Shakespeare.
To the Duke of Wellington.
Written in Butler's Sermons.
Written in Emerson's Essays.
To an Independent Preacher.
To George Cruikshank.
To a Republican Friend.
1852. Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems.
[p.xxxv] Empedocles on Etna.
The River.
Excuse.
Indifference.
Too Late.
On the Rhine.
Longing.
The Lake.
Parting.
Absence.
Destiny. (Not reprinted.)
To Marguerite.
Human Life.
Despondency.
Youth's Agitations—A Sonnet.
Self-Deception.
Lines written by a Death-bed. (Afterward, Youth and Calm.)
Tristram and Iseult.
Memorial Verses. (Previously published in Fraser's Magazine.)
Courage. (Not reprinted.)
Self-Dependence.
A Summer Night.
The Buried Life.
A Farewell.
Stanzas in Memory of the Author of Obermann.
Consolation.
Lines written in Kensington Gardens.
The World's Triumphs—A Sonnet.
The Second Best.
Revolutions.
The Youth of Nature.
[p.xxxvi] The Youth of Man.
Morality.
Progress.
The Future.
1853. Poems.
Sohrab and Rustum.
Cadmus and Harmonia. (A fragment of Empedocles on Etna.)
Philomela.
Thekla's Answer.
The Church of Brou.
The Neckan.
Switzerland.
Richmond Hill. (A fragment of The Youth of Man.)
Requiescat.
The Scholar-Gipsy.
Stanzas in Memory of the Late Edward Quillman.
Power of Youth. (A fragment of The Youth of Man.)
1854. A Farewell.
1855. Poems.
Balder Dead
Separation.
1858. Merope: A Tragedy.
1867. New Poems.
Persistency of Poetry.
Saint Brandan. (Fraser's Magazine, July, 1860.)
Sonnets.
A Picture of Newstead.
Rachel. (Three Sonnets.)
East London.
West London.
Anti-Desperation.
[p.xxxvii] Immorality.
Worldly Place.
The Divinity.
The Good Shepherd with the Kid.
Austerity of Poetry.
East and West.
Monica's Last Prayer.
Calais Sands.
Dover Beach.
The Terrace at Berne.
Stanzas composed at Carnæ.
A Southern Night. (Previously published in the Victoria Regia, 1861.)
Fragment of Chorus of a "Dejaneira."
Palladium.
Early Death and Fame.
Growing Old.
The Progress of Poesy.
A Nameless Epitaph.
The Last Word.
A Wish.
A Caution to Poets.
Pis-Aller.
Epilogue to Lessing's LAOCOON.
Bacchanalia.
Rugby Chapel.
Heine's Grave.
Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.
1860. The Lord's Messengers. (Cornhill Magazine, July.)
1866. Thyrsis. (Macmillan's Magazine, April.)
1868. Obermann Once More.
1873. New Rome. (Cornhill Magazine, June.)
[p.xxxviii] 1877. Haworth Churchyard with Epilogue. (Fraser's Magazine, May.)
1881. Geist's Grave. (Fortnightly Review, January.)
1882. Westminster Abbey. (Nineteenth Century Magazine, January.)
Poor Matthais. (Macmillan's Magazine, December.)
1887. Horatian Echo. (The Century Guild Hobby Horse, July.)
Kaiser Dead. (Fortnightly Review, July.)
PROSE WORKS
1859. England and the Italian Question.
1861. Popular Education in France.
On Translating Homer.
1864. A French Eton.
1865. Essays in Criticism.
1867. On Study of Celtic Literature.
1868. Schools and Universities on the Continent.
1869. Culture and Anarchy.
1870. St. Paul and Protestantism.
1871. Friendship's Garland.
1873. Literature and Dogma.
1874. Higher Schools and Universities in Germany.
1875. God and the Bible.
1877. Last Essays on Church and Religion.
1879. Mixed Essays.
1882. Irish Essays.
1885. Discourses in America.
1888. Essays in Criticism, Second Series.
Special Report on Elementary Education Abroad.
Civilization in the United States.
[CONTEMPORARY] AUTHORS
[p.xxxix]
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881).
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800-1859).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861).
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892).
Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882).
William M. Thackeray (1811-1863).
Robert Browning (1812-1889).
Charles Dickens (1812-1870).
George Eliot (1819-1880).
John Ruskin (1819-1900).
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903).
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878).
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882).
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864).
John G. Whittier (1807-1892).
Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882).
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894).
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).
[BIBLIOGRAPHY]
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The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (The Macmillan Company, one volume).
The English Poets, Vol. I, by T.H. Ward.
Matthew Arnold and the Spirit of the Age, edited by the English Club of Sewanee, Tennessee.
Matthew Arnold, by Sir J.G. Fitch.
Tennyson, Ruskin, and Other Literary Estimates, by Frederic Harrison.
Studies in Interpretation, by W.H. Hudson.
Corrected Impressions on Matthew Arnold, by G.E.B. Saintsbury.
Matthew Arnold, by Herbert W. Paul.
Matthew Arnold, by G.E.B. Saintsbury.
Arnold's Letters, collected and arranged by G.W.E. Russell.
The Bibliography of Matthew Arnold, edited by T.B. Smart.
Matthew Arnold, by Andrew Lang, in Century Magazine, 1881-1882, p. 849.
The Poetry of Matthew Arnold, by R.H. Hutton, in
Essays Theological and Literary, Vol. II.
Religion and Culture, by John Shairp.
Arnold, in Victorian Poets, by Stedman.
Matthew Arnold, New Poems, in Essays and Studies, by A.C. Swinburne.
Arnold, in Our Living Poets, by Forman.