Here is the task link.... http://dilipbarad.blogspot.in/2014/11/mathew-arnold-study-of-poetry.html "Matthew Arnold" - English Victorian poet, literary & social critic, noted especially for his classical attacks on the contemporary tastes & manners of the "BARBARIANS", the "PHILISTINES" & the "POPULACE". He became the apostle of "Culture" in such works as "Culture & Anarchy." He could be called "the critic's critic", being a champion not only of great poetry , but of literary Criticism itself. The purpose of literary Criticism, in his view was to know the best that is known & thought in the world, & by in its turn making this known, to create a current of true & fresh ideas & he has influenced a whole school of critics including new critics such as .... T.S Eliot, F.R Leavis & Allen Tate. He was the founder of the Sociological school of Criticism & throu...