Matthew Arnold

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Poet
Essayist
literary work
gptkbp:associatedWith Aestheticism
Victorian literature
Cultural criticism
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Literature
gptkbp:born December 24, 1822
gptkbp:children gptkb:William_Arnold
gptkb:Mary_Arnold
Margaret_Arnold
gptkbp:died April 15, 1888
gptkbp:education gptkb:Balliol_College,_Oxford
gptkbp:famousFor Social commentary
Critique of culture
Poetic style
gptkbp:famousQuote "Culture is the study of perfection"
"The best that has been thought and said"
"We are not what we ought to be"
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants"
"The great thing is to be in the right place at the right time"
gptkbp:genre Criticism
Poetry
Essays
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Matthew Arnold
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:T._S._Eliot
Matthew_Arnold's_son
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:William_Wordsworth
gptkb:Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
gptkb:John_Keats
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableFeature Cultural studies
Education reform
Modernist literature
Literary_theory
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Dover_Beach
Culture and Anarchy
The Scholar-Gipsy
Thyrsis
gptkbp:occupation Inspector of Schools
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Laleham,_England
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Liverpool,_England
gptkbp:productionCompany 19th century
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Frances_Lucy_Arnold