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'Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.' Matthew Arnold felt permanently displaced in the world in which he lived, impatient with the cultural and social inadequacies of the recent past yet unable to reconcile himself with the self-confidence and materialism of the present and probable future. He saw the Victorian age as having shaken off the reality but not yet the mind set of the past, as championing national complacency at the expense of criticism, stifling individualism and creativity, and thus without a great culture of it's own. His alienation from the age in which he lived, exacerbated by both self doubt and the general disintegration of universal certainties, led him to produce not only poetry but a wide range of critical material dealing with the function of literature and of criticism itself, the administration and purpose of education, the nature of faith and the role...

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