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    Matthew Arnold was an influential literary critic in the 19th century who saw criticism as an art form rather than a craft or branch of philosophy. He believed that critics should be objective and impartial in their analysis, focusing on assessing the intrinsic qualities of a work rather than external contexts. Arnold also thought critics should consider foreign works and ideas to gain a broader perspective, and that their role was to disseminate the best ideas and help the common reader understand great writing. For Arnold, criticism encompassed the examination of all aspects of life, including literature, society, politics, and religion, with the aim of seeing objects and issues as they truly are.

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    Matthew Arnold was an influential literary critic in the 19th century who saw criticism as an art form rather than a craft or branch of philosophy. He believed that critics should be objective and impartial in their analysis, focusing on assessing the intrinsic qualities of a work rather than external contexts. Arnold also thought critics should consider foreign works and ideas to gain a broader perspective, and that their role was to disseminate the best ideas and help the common reader understand great writing. For Arnold, criticism encompassed the examination of all aspects of life, including literature, society, politics, and religion, with the aim of seeing objects and issues as they truly are.

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    Matthew Arnold was an influential literary critic in the 19th century who saw criticism as an art form rather than a craft or branch of philosophy. He believed that critics should be objective and impartial in their analysis, focusing on assessing the intrinsic qualities of a work rather than external contexts. Arnold also thought critics should consider foreign works and ideas to gain a broader perspective, and that their role was to disseminate the best ideas and help the common reader understand great writing. For Arnold, criticism encompassed the examination of all aspects of life, including literature, society, politics, and religion, with the aim of seeing objects and issues as they truly are.

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    Q: Matthew Arnold as a CRITIC?

    After the romantic period, which was known as the


    period of confusion in criticism Arnold again forced
    authority. He was a stern and grave critic who put
    down certain ideologies of criticism and educated
    others how to criticize.
    Matthew Arnold perceived the critic quite different
    from any other before him. According to him, criticism
    did not come from the branch of philosophy. It was not
    even a craft; it was a form of art, the art of judgment.
    He says that a critic should belong to no party whether
    intellectual, religious or political. He should learn to
    think objectively, he should demonstrate that this is
    better than that.
    Criticism ought to be a ‘dissemination of ideas, an
    unprejudiced and impartial effort to study and spread
    the best that is known and thought in the world’, is
    what Matthew Arnold says in his essay- The Function of
    Criticism at the Present Time (1864). He writes that
    when assessing a particular work, the goal is ‘to see the
    object as in itself it really is’. Psychological, historical
    and sociological backgrounds are immaterial. This
    attitude was very influential and particularly
    noteworthy with later critics.
    In his pursuit for the best, a critic Arnold believed that
    it should not only restrict or limit himself to the
    literature works of his own country but should draw
    significantly on foreign literature and ideas to a large
    extent because the spreading of ideas should be an
    objective venture.
    Arnold says criticism is nothing if it is not related to life.
    Life is the main thing. So his criticism of literature,
    society, politics, and religion all tends towards being a
    criticism of life. So does his poetic activity. Thus
    criticism with Arnold denotes a comprehensive activity
    which embraces all the departments of life. He himself
    defines criticism as “the endeavor, in all branches of
    knowledge, theology, philosophy, history, art, science,
    to see the object as in itself it really is.
    The critic’s part in this procedure necessitates that he
    disinterestedly identifies the greatness in writing and
    use his critical powers to communicate this greatness to
    the common man. Arnold makes an effort to
    demonstrate that criticism in and of itself has several
    significant functions and should be observed as an art
    form that is as high and important as any creative art
    form.

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