Amal Mohaya AlRekabiCourse: PoetryMatthew Arnold as a Poet and CriticThe word "criticism" comes from a Greek word meaning "judgment." So criticism is fundamentally the exercise of judgment, and literary criticism is, therefore, the exercise of judgment on literary works. From this it is clear that the nature of literary criticism is to examine a literary work, and its function is to identify its points of excellence and its inadequacies, and finally to evaluate its artistic value. Literary criticism is concerned with asking philosophical questions about the nature of imaginative literature. It is not simply a matter of navigating the literary text to answer questions about the syntactic or semantic structures of the sentences that make up that literary work. It is to deeply probe the essence of a literary text and see how it enlivens, if nothing else, the writer's spirit in relation to what surrounds him. During the first half of the twentieth century, literary critics became aware and aware of the interaction between past and present. The interests of the critics ranged from the poetics of Plato and Aristotle, through the theory and criticism of the Renaissance, to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. They were the most profoundly indebted to the nineteenth century. Of all previous literary movements, Romanticism is the most important for modern criticism. Romanticism reacted to Neoclassicism, represented by eighteenth-century criticism. Critics in the early 20th century rebelled against oppressive Victorian aesthetic and social conventions. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Arnold are the two main leaders of the English Romantic movement, powerfully influencing... the center of the card... the whole. When I say as a whole it means that it relates all types of institutes that collaborate together in the formation of human beings. Therefore, the loss of the ideal figure, the hero and the model they could not find, together with his interest in the classic led him in The Scholar Gipsy to return to the novel written by Glanville. The poem is based on the story he read in Glenville's book. He believed that there was a kind of continuity in history, cultural development and life's journey. When I say continuity I am referring to the 19th century critical poet Arnold as part of his time because all poets and writers believed in the element of continuity, in the link between past and present, in stability, in the center that influences, therefore the relationship between things and the stability and continuity that leads to a coherent presence, harmony and stability of mind.