Matthew Arnold, poetry, faith, tears

(2013) ‘Divine liquidness of diction … divine fluidity of movement’: Reading Poetry after Matthew Arnold and the Higher Biblical Criticism. Literature and Theology, 27(3), pp. 313-329.

This article regards Matthew Arnold (1822–88) and his work to realign the Bible and literature after Strauss’ mid-century higher biblical criticism. Through a reading of the ‘man of sorrows’ and weeping in Arnold’s ‘Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse’, it seeks ways to recover the historical conditions of faith and expression.