1960 - 1977 Prose Works of Matthew Arnold Complete Set, 1st Edition Dust Jackets

Description: The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold. Edited by R. H. Super. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. 1960 - 1977. First Edition. Complete Set in 11 Volumes, Original Dust Jackets, uniform cloth binding measuring 8.25 x 5.25”, 8vos. 1. On the classical tradition. 19602. Democratic education. 19623. Lectures and essays in criticism. 19624. Schools and universities on the continent. 1964 5. Culture and anarchy with friendship's garland and some literary essays. 19656. Dissent and dogma. 1968 7. God and the Bible. 19708. Essays religious and mixed. 19729. English literature and Irish politics. 197310. Philistinism in England and America. 197411. The last word. 1977 In fair condition. Dust jackets exhibited the most wear: edges are scuffed with some small chipping, hinges rubbed/worn with some beginning to split at heads and tails, & toning/soiling. All dust jackets include their original prices on front flap’s top corner. Different colored cloth boards lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Vol. I exhibits small water or tea dampness stain at top edge of front board. Light foxing to fore-edges of text-blocks. Top edges sprayed black. Ownership bookplates found on all volumes’ front paste-downs, but Vol. XI: “Gilbert Goodwin, Ann Arbor MI.” Light toning throughout text-blocks, mostly at edges of leaves. Some front gutters fragile, but all bindings remain intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. He has been characterized as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. He was also an inspector of schools for thirty-five years, and supported the concept of state-regulated secondary education. George Watson follows George Saintsbury in dividing Arnold's career as a prose writer into three phases: 1) early literary criticism that begins with his preface to the 1853 edition of his poems and ends with the first series of Essays in Criticism (1865); 2) a prolonged middle period (overlapping the first and third phases) characterized by social, political and religious writing (roughly 1860–1875); 3) a return to literary criticism with the selecting and editing of collections of Wordsworth's and Byron's poetry and the second series of Essays in Criticism. Quite rare as a complete set of first editions. GIFT QUALITY! FORN-SHELF-0513-BB-2408-HK1956

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