A poet and a critic, that was what Mathew Arnold was. Born on the Thames at Laleham in 1822. He was a historian and a Rugby player. Winchester is where he went to school. That is where he wrote his first poem and won an award. Is was called "Alaric at Rome." He also went to school at Oxford as a Scholar and wrote another poem which was called Cromwell. He received a Newdigate prize. He also received a Litterae humaniors. In his poetry, Mathew Arnold had not revealed the "hidden ground of thought and of austerity within." He also writes Passages in a Wandering Life. Mathew Arnold always dressed fashionably. He was elected Fellow of Oriel and accounted a great distinction at Oxford.
             Mathew Arnold became private secretary to the Lord Lansdownein in the year of 1847. In 1851 Lord Lansdowne secured him an inspectorship of schools. He married the daughter of Sir William Wightman. He was a judge of the Queen's Bench. In Mathew Arnold's literary career that started in 1849 with the poem The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems. This poem was the most purely poetical poem and also were the poems, The Forsaken Merman, Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems and Tristan and Insult.
             In 1853, Mathew Arnolds work as a critic begins with the preface to the poems, Sohrab and Rustum, The Scholar Gipsy and Empedocles. The poems have an emphasis on the importance of subject in poetry. He learned from the Greeks on clearness of arrangement, rigor of development and simplicity of style. His critical theory may be observed of his essential elements. In 1855, he did Balder Dead, another poem.
             In 1857, criticism began in his life of poetry. And in the professorship at Oxford which he had two good terms in five long years. He wrote to a friend in 1858, rather to inaugurate my professorship with dignity than to move deeply the present race of humans and chiefly remarkable for some experiments
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