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| He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. |
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| 1795–1881, English author, b. Scotland.… His style, one of the most tortuous yet effective in English literature, was a compound of biblical phrases, colloquialisms, Teutonic twists, and his own coinings, arranged in unexpected sequences.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Introductory Note from the Harvard Classics.) |
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Pronunciation:  kär-l l´, kär´ll from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- WORKS
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- Characteristics
A seminal work of Romantic interpretation. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXV, Part 3.
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- Inaugural Address at Edinburgh
A clear statement of Carlyle’s moral passions. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXV, Part 4.
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- Sir Walter Scott
One of many essays extolling great men. From the Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIV, Part 5.
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- Bartlett’s Carlyle Quotations
Epitomal selections by John Bartlett.
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- Carlyle, Thomas, 10479 to 10547
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT CARLYLE
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- “Carlyle”
Chapter by J. G. Robertson with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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