Skip to content

That Shakespearean Rag

A Blog About Books and Reading

  • Home
  • About
  • Account
  • Log In
  • Newsletter
  • Contact

That Shakespearean Rag

A Blog About Books and Reading

  • Home
  • About
  • Account
  • Log In
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Criticism
  • “The best that is known and thought”: On rereading Matthew Arnold in 2023
CriticismThe Colophon

“The best that is known and thought”: On rereading Matthew Arnold in 2023

February 3, 2023February 4, 2023
by Steven Beattie

Today, Arnold’s ideas seem deeply unfashionable. They also seem pressingly relevant.

This content is for Monthly Reader and Annual Reader members only.
Login Join Now
Matthew ArnoldWilliam Wordsworth

Share this post

Post navigation

Previous article

Laconic prose and a highly unreliable narrator characterize the first new novel from Bret Easton Ellis in more than a decade

Next article

Fail better: Stephen Marche on the one constant in a writer’s life

Steven Beattie

Related posts

In 2023, Banned Books Week is more important than ever

October 2, 2023October 2, 2023

Michael Wolff’s book about Fox News is full of dishy gossip, but suffers from false equivalency

September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

Debut writers from multinational publishers dominate the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize shortlist

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023
Powered by the Elsie WordPress theme