The Carlyle EncyclopediaMark Cumming Written by more than fifty international researchers in Victorian studies, The Carlyle Encyclopedia is the new standard, single-volume reference work on Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle. It offers concise but detailed accounts of central issues related to the Carlyles' lives and writings, and provides bibliographic citations that direct the reader's attention to a wide range of additional sources. It presents the lives and literary achievements of two remarkable individuals in the context of the rich and challenging Victorian age. The Carlyle Encyclopedia will interest a variety of readers who concern themselves with literature, social history, the history of ideas, Victorian culture, and Scottish studies. Mark Cumming teaches nineteenth-century literature at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 82
Page 15
... poet who worked for most of his life as a customs officer , Allingham retired from his government post in 1870 to pur- sue his literary career and friendships . He was a friend of Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Leigh Hunt ...
... poet who worked for most of his life as a customs officer , Allingham retired from his government post in 1870 to pur- sue his literary career and friendships . He was a friend of Alfred Tennyson , Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Leigh Hunt ...
Page 23
... poetic genius " ( 19 ) and argued that the Metrical Legends are somewhat mechanical and contrived . Jane Baillie Welsh described the poet playfully in 1824 as the " Johanna Baillie who makes plays and puddings with the same facil- ity ...
... poetic genius " ( 19 ) and argued that the Metrical Legends are somewhat mechanical and contrived . Jane Baillie Welsh described the poet playfully in 1824 as the " Johanna Baillie who makes plays and puddings with the same facil- ity ...
Page 25
... poet , he declares , one of the great- est of the nineteenth century . Basch outlines Carlyle's appropriation of German philosophy , and no one was better qualified to do so . He defines the Kantian essentials Carlyle appropri- ated ...
... poet , he declares , one of the great- est of the nineteenth century . Basch outlines Carlyle's appropriation of German philosophy , and no one was better qualified to do so . He defines the Kantian essentials Carlyle appropri- ated ...
Page 36
... poet's son , Hallam Tennyson , in 1884. Other friends included the Brownings , Walter Savage Landor , James Russell Lowell , and Thomas Carlyle . In Her Book Mary Boyle devoted a brief chap- ter to Thomas Carlyle . She chose to ...
... poet's son , Hallam Tennyson , in 1884. Other friends included the Brownings , Walter Savage Landor , James Russell Lowell , and Thomas Carlyle . In Her Book Mary Boyle devoted a brief chap- ter to Thomas Carlyle . She chose to ...
Page 40
... poet unaware of himself " ( Sanders , part 1 , 233 ) . Barrett Browning and Carlyle first met in late July 1851 , after she and Robert returned to England from their first sojourn in Italy . She wrote : " we have passed an evening with ...
... poet unaware of himself " ( Sanders , part 1 , 233 ) . Barrett Browning and Carlyle first met in late July 1851 , after she and Robert returned to England from their first sojourn in Italy . She wrote : " we have passed an evening with ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration Alexander Alexander Carlyle Allingham argued Ashburton became BIBLIOGRAPHY Carlyle biography British brother Buller Cambridge career Carlyle observed Carlyle wrote Charles Chartism Cheyne Row Coleridge Craigenputtoch criticism Cromwell death Dickens Diogenes Teufelsdröckh Disraeli Duffy early Edinburgh edition Edward England English essay Forster Fraser's Magazine Frederick French Revolution Friedrich Friedrich Schiller friendship Froude's German Literature Goethe Goethe's Harriet Henry hero Hunt Ireland Irish Irving James Anthony Froude Jane Welsh Carlyle Jane's Jeffrey Jewsbury John Sterling John Stuart Mill Lady later Latter-Day Pamphlets lectures Letters and Speeches literary living London Margaret Martineau Mazzini Milnes novel Occasional Discourse Oliver Cromwell's Letters Oxford Past and Present philosopher poems poet poetry political portrait praised published Ralph Waldo Emerson reform Reminiscences Review Richard Richard Monckton Milnes Sartor Resartus Schiller Scotland Scottish social society spiritual Tennyson Thomas Carlyle thought tion University Press Victorian vols William York young
Popular passages
Page 30 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth ? Declare, if thou hast understanding.