http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).22
10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).22
Published : Mar 2021
William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture
This research paper examines the relationship between Arnold, Pater and modernism through the mediation of Wordsworth's ideas on education. Arnold's ideas on education are inspired by Wordsworth, and Arnold remains the most influential critic and theorist of education in the 'Wordsworthian tradition'. It is important to acknowledge the centrality of Arnold's ideas since Wordsworth's influence on later writers was largely mediated through Arnold's writings. Arnold echoes the best of Wordsworth in his best prose work, Culture and Anarchy. Education is a great help to culture as he says emphatically that 'education is the road to culture'. He recommends 'the right educative influences...under the banner of cultural ideals'. Arnold's influence on Pater is well-known (even if he departs from him). Wordsworth is a common source of influence on both Pater and Arnold. It is argued that Pater's aestheticism is not simply its anti-bourgeois, anti-Christian quality but its links to the notion of education and development.
-
Wordsworth, Culture, Education, Aesthetic, Humanistic Vision
-
(1) Sajjad Ali Khan
Associate Professor & Chairperson, Department of English Language & Literature, Government College University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
- Delaura, D. J. (1966). The 'Wordsworth' of Pater and Arnold: 'The supreme, artistic view of life.' Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 6(4), 651-67.
- Delaura, D. J. (1969). Hebrew and hellene in Victorian England. London: University of Texas Press
- Dowling, L. (1996). Hellenism and homosexuality. Ithaca: Cornell University Press
- Eliot, T. S. (1963). Arnold and Pater. Selected essays. London: Faber & Faber
- Kermode, F. (1957). Romantic Image. London: Routledge.
- Khan, S. A. (2013). William Wordsworth, James Joyce and E. M. Forster: the romantic notion of education and modern fiction (doctoral thesis, University of Sussex, Brighton, England). http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45846.
- Kuhn, Jr. (1971). Some notes on Matthew Arnold's thought on education and culture. Notre Dame English Journal, 7(1), 52-66
- Leavis, F. R. (1969). Revaluation: Tradition and development in English poetry. London: Chatto & Windus
- Matthew, A. (1915). Wordsworth. Essays in criticism, second series. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.
- Matthew, A. (2006). Culture and anarchy. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- May, B. (1997). The modernist as pragmatist: E. M. Forster and the fate of liberalism. Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press.
- Mazzeno, L. W. (1999). Mathew Arnold: The critical legacy. New York: Camden House.
- Meisel, P. (1987). The myth of the modern: A study in British literature and criticism after 1850. New Haven & London: Yale University Press
- Novak, B. (2002). Humanizing democracy: Matthew Arnold's nineteenth-century call for a common, higher, educative pursuit of happiness and its relevance to twenty-firstcentury democratic life. American Educational Research Journal, 39(3), 593-637.
- Pater, W. (1918). Wordsworth. Appreciations. London: Macmillan
- Perlis, A. D. (1980). Beyond epiphany: Pater's aesthetic hero in the works of Joyce. James Joyce Quarterly, 17(3), 272-279.
- Pointon, B. (1998). Wordsworth and education. Boston: Hornbook Press.
- Poirier, R. (1988). Pater, Joyce, Eliot. James Joyce Quarterly 26(1), 21-35.
- Scotto, R. M. (1973). 'Visions' and 'Epiphanies': Fictional technique in Pater's 'Marius' and Joyce's 'Portrait.' James Joyce Quarterly, 11(1), 41-50.
- Sidgwick, H. (2006). The prophet of culture. Culture and anarchy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Steiner, G. (1984). To civilize our gentleman. George Steiner: A Reader. U.S.A.: Penguin Books.
- Trilling, L. (1971). E. M. Forster. NewYork; London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- William, W. (1979). The prelude 1799, 1805, 1850, ed. Wordsworth, J., Abrams, M. H., & Gill, S. New York, NY: Norton.
- Williams, R. (1990). Culture and society 1780-1950. London: Hogarth Press.
- Wilson, E. (2004). Axel's castle. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Cite this article
-
APA : Khan, S. A. (2021). William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture. Global Language Review, VI(I), 206-215. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).22
-
CHICAGO : Khan, Sajjad Ali. 2021. "William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture." Global Language Review, VI (I): 206-215 doi: 10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).22
-
HARVARD : KHAN, S. A. 2021. William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture. Global Language Review, VI, 206-215.
-
MHRA : Khan, Sajjad Ali. 2021. "William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture." Global Language Review, VI: 206-215
-
MLA : Khan, Sajjad Ali. "William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture." Global Language Review, VI.I (2021): 206-215 Print.
-
OXFORD : Khan, Sajjad Ali (2021), "William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture", Global Language Review, VI (I), 206-215
-
TURABIAN : Khan, Sajjad Ali. "William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater: The Romantic Notion of Education and its Relation to Culture." Global Language Review VI, no. I (2021): 206-215. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(VI-I).22