Talk:Culture and Anarchy

At some point I'd like to get back to this page and enlarge it a bit. I've edited the erroneous publication information. The explanation of the books importance leaves out so much. Right now it rather reads as if it were a few odds notes from someone who has not read -the book, but rather has read an article about it, perhaps Lincoln Allison's. Allison's essay is an amusing piece of writing that has its moments but really seems to say more about Allison than it does about either Arnold or Culture and Anarchy. Surely it is neither the last word on this book, nor the most revealing, but it sure stands out like a sore-thumb in the external links list. It makes me wonder whether this stub was put in for no other purpose than to advertise the essay. Mddietz 18:33, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I was going back and forth between open windows of wikipedia, one signed in, the other not, and ended up adding the reference list in the unsigned in version. Ouch! Mddietz 19:05, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Pegship, classing Culture and Anarchy as a collection of essays is a little dubious. Arnold appears to have considered it a single, long essay. Admittedly, it was originally produced periodically in magazine format, and later chapters comment on criticisms directed at earlier chapters. Nonetheless, the category really does not work and I have removed it. Actually I just noticed that the opening sentence as it originally stood seems to be at fault here. I have changed it from a collection of essays to a series of essays, which I think is a more accurate description. Mddietz 16:26, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

I hope some learned person will enlarge this article per Mddietz. It deserves it. Xxanthippe (talk) 09:45, 20 June 2011 (UTC).