Literary Theory
Subtitle: The Basics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 18, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415250610
First sentence: If we want to understand English and American thinking about literature in the twentieth century we must begin with the nineteenth-century figure of Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), English educator, poet (once famous for his rather depressing but much anthologized 'Dover Beach'), and professor of poetry at Oxford University.