Matthew Arnold (d. 24 Aralık 1822, Laleham, Middlesex; ö. 15 Nisan 1888, Liverpool), İngiliz şair ve kültür eleştirmeni. Kültür eleştirmeni olarak edebiyatta büyük etkisi oldu. Arnold, Rugby School'un tanınmış müdürü Thomas Arnold'un oğlu ve edebiyat profesörü Tom Arnold ve roman yazarı William Delafield Arnold kardeşiydi.
Eserleri
Şiir
Alaric at Rome. A Prize Poem (1840)
Cromwell. A Prize Poem (1843)
The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849)
Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems (1852, 1900)
Poems. A New Edition (1853)
Poems. Second Series (1855)
Merope. A Tragedy (1858)
New Poems (1867)
A Matthew Arnold Birthday Book (1883)
The Works of Matthew Arnold (h1903)
The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (1950)
The Poems of Matthew Arnold (1965)
Deneme, kültür eleştirisi ve diğerleri
England and the Italian Question (1859)
The Popular Education of France, with Notices of That of Holland and Switzerland (1861)
On Translating Homer. Three Lectures Given at Oxford (1861)
On Translating Homer. Last Words. A Lecture Given at Oxford (1862)
Heinrich Heine (1863)
A French Eton; or, Middle Class Education and the State (1864)
Essays in Criticism (1865)
Schools and Universities on the Continent (1867)
On the Modern Element in Literature (1869)
Culture and Anarchy. An Essay in Political and Social Criticism (1869)
Literature and Dogma. An Essay towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible (1873)
Higher Schools and Universities in Germany (1874)
God and the Bible. A Review of Objections to „Literature and Dogma“ (1875)
Last Essays on Church and Religion (1877)
Mixed Essays (1879)
The Study of Poetry (1880)
Irish Essays, and Others (1882)
Friendship's Garland Being the Conversations, Letters and Opinions of the Late Arminius, Baron von Thunder-ten-Tronckh (1883)
On the Study of Celtic Literature (1883)
St. Paul and Protestantism; with an Introduction on Puritanism and the Church of England (1883)