Editing Matthew Arnold (section)

==Literary career==
[[File:Matthew Arnold Vanity Fair 11 November 1871.jpg|right|thumb|Caricature by [[James Tissot]] published in ''[[Vanity Fair (UK magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' in 1871]]
In 1852, Arnold published his second volume of poems, ''Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems''. In 1853, he published ''Poems: A New Edition'', a selection from the two earlier volumes famously excluding ''[[Empedocles on Etna]]'', but adding new poems, ''[[Sohrab and Rustum]]'' and ''[[The Scholar Gipsy]]''. In 1854, ''Poems: Second Series'' appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem ''[[Balder Dead]]''.

Arnold was elected [[Oxford Professor of Poetry|Professor of Poetry]] at Oxford in 1857, and he was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in Latin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/regular-events/professor-poetry |title=Professor of Poetry &#124; Faculty of English |access-date=16 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723095646/http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/news-events/regular-events/professor-poetry |archive-date=23 July 2014  }}</ref> He was re-elected in 1862. ''[[On Translating Homer]]'' (1861) and the initial thoughts that Arnold would transform into ''[[Culture and Anarchy]]'' were among the fruits of the Oxford lectures. In 1859, he conducted the first of three trips to the continent at the behest of parliament to study European educational practices. He self-published ''The Popular Education of France'' (1861), the introduction to which was later published under the title ''Democracy'' (1879).<ref>Super, CPW, II, p. 330.</ref>
[[File:Matthew Arnold grave.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3|alt=Arnold's gravestone|Matthew Arnold's grave at All Saints' Church, [[Laleham]], Surrey.]]
In 1865, Arnold published ''Essays in Criticism: First Series''. ''Essays in Criticism: Second Series'' would not appear until November 1888, shortly after his death. In 1866, he published ''[[Thyrsis (poem)|Thyrsis]]'', his elegy to Clough who had died in 1861. ''Culture and Anarchy'', Arnold's major work in social criticism (and one of the few pieces of his prose work currently in print) was published in 1869. ''Literature and Dogma'', Arnold's major work in religious criticism appeared in 1873. In 1883 and 1884, Arnold toured the United States and Canada<ref>{{cite journal|title=Literary Gossip|journal=The Week: A Canadian Journal of Politics, Literature, Science and Arts|date=6 December 1883|volume=1|series=1|page=13|url=https://archive.org/stream/weekcanadianjour01toro#page/n7/mode/1up}}</ref> delivering lectures on education, democracy and [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]]. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1883.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=25 April 2011}}</ref> In 1886, he retired from school inspection and made another trip to America. An edition of  ''Poems by Matthew Arnold'', with an introduction by [[A. C. Benson]] and illustrations by [[Henry Ospovat]], was published in 1900 by [[John Lane (publisher)|John Lane]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Poems by Matthew Arnold |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009025163 |year=1900 |others=Introduction by A. C. Benson; illustrated by Henry Ospovat |location=London |publisher=John Lane}} xxxiv+375 pp.</ref>