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Matthey Arnold He was educated at Winchester; Rugby, where he won a prize for a poem on "Alaric at Rome"; and Oxford, to which he went as a Scholar of Balliol College in 1841, and where he won the Newdigate Prize for "Cromwell, A Prize Poem," and received a Second Class in **litterae humaniores**, to the regret though hardly to the surprise of his friends. Always outwardly a worldling, he had not yet revealed the "hidden ground of thought and of austerity within" which was to appear in his poetry. "During these years," writes Thomas Arnold the younger in **Passages in a Wandering Life**, "my brother was cultivating his poetic gift carefully, but his exuberant, versatile nature claimed other satisfactions. His keen bantering talk made him something of a social lion among Oxford men, he even began to dress and he was December 24 1822, in Lateham Middlesex on christman eve he is the son of Dr Thomas Arnold.He die on April 15,1888 in the liverpool it was cause by the Heart failure.  t he charcteristics of MR.Arnold poems is narrative.I know when I'm reading one of MR.Arnold poem because it got rhyme.his style is He was led on from literary criticism to a more general critique of the

spirit of his age

. Between 1867 and 1869 he wrote //Culture and Anarchy//, famous for the term he popularised for the middle class of the English Victorian era population: " Philistines ", a word which derives its modern cultural meaning (in English - the German-language usage was well established) from him. //Culture and Anarchy// is also famous for its popularization of the phrase "sweetness and light," first coined by Jonathan Swift. Arnold's "want of logic and thoroughness of thought" as noted by John M. Robertson in //Modern Humanists// was an aspect of the inconsistency of which Arnold was accused. Few of his ideas were his own, and he failed to reconcile the conflicting influences which moved him so strongly. "There are four people, in especial," he once wrote to Cardinal Newman "from whom I am conscious of having learnt — a very different thing from merely receiving a strong impression — learnt habits, methods, ruling ideas, which are constantly with me; and the four are — Goethe, Wordsworth , Sainte-Beuve . and yourself." Dr. Arnold must be added; the son's fundamental likeness to the father was early pointed out by Swinburne, and was later attested by Matthew Arnold's grandson, Mr. Arnold Whitridge. Brought up in the tenets of the Philistinism which, as a professed cosmopolitan and the Apostle of Culture he attacked, he remained something of a Philistine to the end. ** Best Friends Forever Poems ** Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.The rain may be falling hard outside, But your smile makes it all alright. I'm so glad that you're my I know our friendship will never end.