Date of Award
12-13-1972
Degree Type
Master's Essay - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
Abstract
Matthew Arnold ' s various aphoristic · judgments of the English Romantic poets-that Byron was "empty of matter" that Wordsworth was "profound yet "wanting in completeness and variety;" that Coleridge, with "immense reading," "took to opium;"2 and that Shelley was a "beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain" -are almost commonplaces to students of English literature. Yet his reasons for making these judgments and what his fuller judgments of them are are much less known.
Recommended Citation
Rettig, James R., "Matthew Arnold’s Judgment of the English Romantics in the Context of His Thought" (1972). Master's Essays (1922 - ). 2701.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/essays/2701
Comments
An Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.