Matthew Arnold was a distinguished nineteenth century English poet and critic who brought about a revolution in the world of English literature with his critical essays, prose and poetry. His standing in the literary world rests as much as on his poetries as his narratives and essays. Although Arnold is deemed as the third great Victorian poet after Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning, it was in prose that he found his true expression. While his poetical works have been tagged as gnomic and elegiac, his polished, didactic, and satirically witty prose works have earned him quite a big fan following. Arnold believed that poetry should be the ‘criticism of life’ and verbalize a philosophy. Then again, his narratives and descriptions were pleasant and picturesque, loaded with outstanding similes to produce a lingering effect on the readers’ mind. Apart from being a poet, he was a critic who refused to succumb to Orthodox Christianity in his youth and chose to become an agnostic instead. However, he admired people who entirely devoted themselves to religion.