ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In Literature and Dogma, Matthew Arnold contends that words in religious texts can have ambiguous, “literary” interpretations or factual, “scientific” ones. His analysis serves to undermine theologians who assign unnecessarily precise definitions to biblical language.

Detailed explanation-2: -“A Study of Poetry” is a critical essay by Matthew Arnold. In this essay Arnold critiques and criticizes the art of poetry as well as the art of criticism. Arnold believes that the art of poetry is capable of high destinies. It is the art in which the idea itself is the fact.

Detailed explanation-3: -Arnold defines poetry as “a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty". He means poetry will follow the principles of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lesson Summary Matthew Arnold was a poet and literary critic whose influence continued long after his death. His poetry explored isolation and conflict with a dark and difficult world through themes like loneliness and isolation, classical characters and ideas, and the flaws of modern life (like its materialism).