Bernard Bergonzi has written an absorbing and fascinating biography of Thomas Arnold the Younger (1824-1900), son of the celebrated headmaster of Rugby and younger brother of Matthew, father of Mrs. Humphrey Ward, and grandfather of Aldous Huxley. A scholar, teacher, and self-styled "wanderer," Arnold's path in life took him, after a brilliant start at Oxford, to colonial New Zealand, to Tasmania, to Dublin, back to Oxford, and once more to Dublin, where he died in 1900. This biography explores Arnold's diverse path through academia, his complex relationship with Catholicism, and his acquaintances with such luminaries as Wordsworth, Arthur Hugh Clough, Lewis Carroll, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and James Joyce.About the Author: Bernard Bergonzi is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Warwick. His publications include: The Early H. G. Wells (MUP 1961)Heroes' Twilight (Constable 1965, Macmillan 1980, Carcanet 1996)The Situation of the Novel (Macmillan 1970, 1979)T. S. Eliot (Macmillan, 1972, 1978)The Turn of a Century (Macmillan 1973)Gerard Manley Hopkins (Macmillan 1977)Reading the Thirties (Macmillan 1978)The Roman Persuasion: A Novel (Weidenfeld 1981)The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature (Harvester 1986)Exploding English (OUP 1990)Wartime and Aftermath (OUP 1993)David Lodge (Northcote House 1995)War Poets and Other Subjects (Ashgate 2000)