Part one of term paper
Dover Beach and Self-Dependence Matthew Arnold was born at Laleham on the Thames, the eldest son of Thomas Arnold, in 1822. He had to live in the shadow of his famous father who ran the Rugby school beginning in 1828. He went to the Rugby school since age 6, but his achievement were inconsistent. He got a scholarship to Oxford anyway in 1 ...

Part two of term paper
... to support his family. He wrote many books of poetry and essays. He went on two tours of America to do Lectures. He later died of a heart attack, in Liverpool, in 1888. Matthew Arnold lived during the Victorian period. For much of this century the term Victorian, which literally describes things and events in the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), conveyed connotations of "prudish," "repressed," and "old fashioned." Although such associations have some basis in fact, they do not adequately indi ...