From Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books (1704).
Matthew Arnold used the phrase “sweetness and light” in Culture and Anarchy (1869) to elaborate his idea of culture as a humanizing and ennobling force.
From what work did Matthew Arnold get the phrase “sweetness and light”?
by Pamela Landy · Filed Under: Literature
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