Four Essays on Life and Letters

Matthew Arnold, poet, critic, and social commentator, spoke quietly and humanely to post-Victorian England on questions of religion, politics, literature, and culture. Writing with the "regularity, uniformity, precision and balance" he felt good prose must have, he asked his readers to deepen their cultural roots, to temper their political partisanship with the disinterestedness of quiet contemplation, and to cultivate a spiritual inspiration of gentleness.

Published 1947.

Binding of book is intact. Sunned covers with heavy foxing and moderate shelfwear. Moderate tanning and foxing on edges of book. Annotations in pen and pencil, moderate foxing, shadow and several stains on endpapers. Some foxing on certain pages.