Thomas Carlyle

In Italy GC met one of her closest friends, Helen Selina Blackwood , Caroline Norton 's elder sister. Back in England, she met and liked Walter Savage Landor . She moved and entertained...

But by the end of his first visit, Jane Welsh agreed to allow Carlyle to supervise her reading, and on his departure he provided her with a list of books by authors including Tasso ,...

Aurora Leigh engages with a wide range of contemporary debates and social issues, paramount among them the roles of women and the role of the poet in contemporary society. It challenges, for instance, long before...

In addition to wading into the controversies of Churchmen, FPC also took Thomas Carlyle to task here for narrow social sympathies and racism. Critic Janet L. Larson presents a detailed analysis of her text's indirect...

Roland Graeme, Knight incorporates wide-ranging allusions to figures such as Goethe , Dickens , Browning , Ruskin , Thoreau , Tennyson , Carlyle , and Handel . Critic Carole Gerson compares it to earlier nineteenth-century...

In an extraordinary passage near the end of the book, Cecil lists a number of people who might, if they could only work together, revolutionize the country. The names he mentions include actual...

This heroine, who is appealing despite her undeniable priggishness, opens her diary under the aegis of Thomas Carlyle (to whom she would have liked to dedicate her journal had he been alive, because of his...

MAB 's discussion of schools leads her into an account of a visit made by the Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder , to a later Zulu chief, Cetshwayo , taken from a blue-book or government report...

Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...

In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville

She took as implicit motto for all her own writings the words from Thomas Carlyle 's Biography (on the foolishness of both writer and subject) with which Elizabeth Gaskell prefaced Mary Barton.

Of the three poems named in the overall title, the first two employ ottava rima (rhyming abababcc), and the third a six-line stanza with one fewer ab. A Modern Apostle follows the career of the...

Dorothy's parents numbered among their friends and acquaintances many prominent artists, scientists, and politicians. These included Browning , Ruskin , Tennyson , Jane and Thomas Carlyle , Francis Galton , Percy Lubbock , and John Tyndall

ABJ attended (with Robert Browning ) a lecture given by Thomas Carlyle on The Hero as Divinity, and a week later on The Hero as Poet (later part of On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the...

GC was already beginning her habit of sending out copies of her works to eminent literary men, who were usually polite enough to reply with the hoped-for tribute of praise. She sent a copy of...