But hitherto I have been insisting chiefly on beauty, or sweetness, as a character of perfection. His often quoted phrase ' the best which has been thought and said' comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy: The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically. I have been trying to show that culture is, or ought to be, the study and pursuit of perfection and that of perfection as pursued by culture, beauty and intelligence, or, in other words, sweetness and light, are the main characters. In Culture and Anarchy, Arnold divides society into three classes: Barbarians the landed aristocracy Philistines. Lincoln Allison retired as a reader in politics at the University of Warwick finds Arnold Culture and Anarchy work written by Mathew Arnold to express mad, bad and dangerous ideas. He further wrote that: ' seeks to do away with classes to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light '. Matthew Arnold, poet, social critic and author of Culture and Anarchy. There are several scholar and modern artist who have given their views on culture and anarchy by Mathew Arnold. According to his view advanced in the book, 'Culture is a study of perfection'. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. He reiterates his belief that Americans are at bottom the same people as ourselves and that they are plain, decent middle class in their ideas and morals (. Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to. Born on 24 th of December,1822 in England, Mathew Arnold was one of the British poet and cultural critic during the Victorian period.

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