Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold: Essays Religious and Mixed v. 8 (The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, Vol 8)
Extreme Saving (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
LibriVox offers free readings of out-of-copyright books. It's an excellent place to discover new authors and books: Balder Dead by Arnold, Matthew Balder Dead" is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Odin's son, Balder, instigated by the treacherous jealousy of Loki. (Summary by Nathan)
IP Lab Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The UK government has made a dramatic U-turn on proposed measures to tackle Internet pirates who illegally download films and music from the net.
Brian Palmu (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... material! Oh, wait .... he's using some other fellow's intellectual dick -- er, actually, Arnold through Burroughs, so I guess it's thrice-removed -- to make his "case". The content? "Matthew Arnold set up three criteria for criticism: 1. What is the writer trying to do? 2. How well does he succeed in doing it? (...) 3. Does the work exhibit "high seriousness"?...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I fell into a cultural gloom a few months ago – one of those "what-have-we-come-to" melancholies that makes you feel like Matthew Arnold on a really bad day – listening to the shingle suck of a retreating tide. And what provoked this, as it turned out, slightly misplaced depression was the belated discovery that Border's and Waterstone's had both closed down Oxford...
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
... he disappears. He is covered with the wax of oblivion. So it has been with, let us say, Hobbes, Matthew Arnold, and Mr Ruskin, who being dead are nearly as much forgotten as the inventor of the safety bicycle. ---Ford Maddox Hueffer (1911) HE'S DOING SOME SERIOUS-ASS INCARNATING... MAZZANTI Giorgio: Poetry is an event of words, not a flatus vocis; the poet is a creature of words (music...
Eyewear (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Poets are sensitive creatures... Matthew Arnold described Shelley as an 'ineffectual archangel... beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.' A poet too delicate for this world - as Jay-Z says, for this 'hard knock life.' As Eliot 's recent letters - just-published - remind us, even the most classical minds have romantic agonies. KJ
Stand Your Ground (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... feelings of the Italian people and all persons of goodwill.” Meantime, in the country of Matthew Arnold's birth, another judge was busy passing an Alice in Wonderland verdict. This case arose from a wrongful-dismissal claim by a man of intense Green passions who said he was fired because of his global warming beliefs. The judge ruled that “a belief in man-made climate...
Words, words, words (and phrases) (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... were left with o-o-l-a- when we gave up. The answer was Oxonian and I subsequently discovered that Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) called Oxford University "Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! " referring in particular, one assumes, to Oxford's support for the ill-fated Charles I .
Dr Roy's Thoughts (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
and their new attempts to start a new religion. What was once venerated is now, in many ways, dismissed and even despised. Matthew Arnold, the great Victorian poet, marked the turning moment. He had early intimations of “the way we live now,” a way largely evacuated of its Christian allegiances, certainly – in the public sphere – evacuated of the regard and respect...
Some landscapes (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... pebble on the shore, Or this indifferent moment as it dies. The other three poems in English are Matthew Arnold's ' Scenes from Carnac ', Roy Campbell's imagistic 'Fishing Boats in Martiques' and an extract from Alexander Hume's descriptive poem 'Of the Day Estivall' (1599) (called in the anthology 'Midsummer Day in France'). Hume's poem featured in Arthur Quiller-Couch's 1919 Oxford...
Covering Health (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Medical Marketing & Media's Matthew Arnold profiled AHCJ member Scott Hensley, of the NPR Health Blog, calling him "digital health journalism's Johnny Appleseed" for his role in starting health blogs at media behemoths such as The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. [caption id="attachment_4811" align="alignright" width="184" caption="Scott...
Travel Destination - Trip Ideas, Hotels, Travel Guide (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
"Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world"-- so said Matthew Arnold. And indeed, there is perhaps nothing better than refining your tastes
god is a giant crab (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
... wife because he thought she was a whore. Don't fuck around if your husband's a duke. Dumb bitch. Matthew Arnold died from a heart attack. I hope I don't die in a boring way. There's no way I'm reading "Culture and Anarchy." Thank you sparknotes/wikipedia. I can't help but laugh at the name Gerald Manley Hopkins. Funnier when you consider he was only 5'2. "Carrion Comfort"...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Source: Lexology, October 23, 2009.\ Google’s plan to put all books online hits the buffers Matthew Arnold & Baldwin LLP "Google’s plan to create a database of all books online has hit problems."
