Word: matthews
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland spoke last night in Sever 11 on Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, and Henry James. In brief the talk was as follows...
Philistine, Barbarian and Populist, were catch words with Matthew Arnold. The upper class in England he calls the barbarian class. He has said that we have no upper class in America, and therefore have no barbarians. To him the American citizens are chiefly Philistines, or people of the middle class, with very few Populists. He has, however, discovered that our Philistines are livelier than those of England...
...Matthew Arnold makes three appeals to the world. First, he is a poet, though to many persons he means little in this character. In his verse he cares only to sing of the beautiful things of tragedy and pathos, without trying to teach; while in his prose he is ever intent upon teaching. In his essays his great aim is to reform the Philistine. Another guise in which Matthew Arnold appears to us is as the gentle critic of pure literature; the reader and the commentator of the best things, which he wished to see prevail. In this character...
This evening Mr. Copeland again lectures in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock. His subject is: "Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, and Mr. Henry James...
...Lecture. Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, and Mr. Henry James. Mr. Copeland. Sever...