Labelled "an elegant Jeremiah" by a journalist of his day, the urbane Victorian Matthew Arnold must have received the comparison with the Old Testament prophet

Examines the influence of the Biblical Prophets on the rhetoric of authors ranging from Henry David Thoreau and Matthew Arnold to D.H. Lawrence and Joan Didion.

One of the most enduring themes in American political discourse is the idea of decline. Since the very beginnings of the European settlement of North America th