Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
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Thomas Carlyle was a social critic and historian born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, December 4, 1795, the same year as John Keats, but Carlyle is considered an early Victorian rather than a Romantic. After completing his elementary studies, he went to the University of Edinburgh but left mostra altro in 1814 without a degree. His parents wanted him to become a minister in the Scottish church, but his independence of spirit made such a life program impossible. In 1816 he fell in love with, and was rejected by, a young woman. His love affair was followed by a period of doubt and uncertainty described vividly in Sartor Resartus, a work published in 1833 that attracted much attention. Carlyle's first literary work reveals his admiration for German thought and philosophy, and especially for the two great German poets Schiller and Goethe. The fictional autobiography of a philosopher deeply impressed Ralph Waldo Emerson who brought it back to the United States to be published there. History of the French Revolution (1837), rewritten after parts of it were mistakenly burned as kindling by John Stuart Mill, cemented Carlyle's reputation. The work brought him fame but no great wealth. As a result of his comparative poverty he was induced to give four series of public lectures. Of these the most famous were those On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic of History delivered in 1840 and published in 1841. Past and Present (1843), and Latter Day Pamphlets (1850) present his economic and industrial theories. With The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845), The Life of John Sterling (1851), and History of Frederick II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (1858-1865) he returned to biography. In 1865, Carlyle was made Lord Rector of Edinburgh. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Nota di disambiguazione:
(eng) 1) CK Above
2) Erik Bruun actually wrote Test Your History IQ
Smelfungus is a name given by Laurence Sterne to Tobias Smollett as author of a volume of Travels through France and Italy, for the snarling abuse he heaps on the institutions and customs of the countries he visited.
In the 19th century it was adopted by Thomas Carlyle as a pen-name when he had any seriously severe criticisms to offer on things, particularly those that have gone or are going to the bad. Patrick Proctor Alexander also used the name in his book Mill and Carlyle, which contrasted Carlyle's views with those of John Stuart Mill. Proctor's Occasional Discourse on Sauertieg by Smelfungus attacks Carlyle's more brutal ideas.
Fonte dell'immagine: Helmolt, H.F., ed. History of the World. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1902.
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Opere di Thomas Carlyle
Autobiography; Essay on Liberty; Characteristics; Inaugural Address; Essay on Scott (1909) — Collaboratore — 222 copie
Carlyle's Essay on Burns: With the Cotter's Saturday Night and Other Poems from Burns (1909) 21 copie
Essays on Goethe 9 copie
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, with Elucidations by Thomas Carlyle: Volume 2 (1845) 7 copie
Historical Essays (The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle) (2002) 6 copie
Historical Sketches of Notable Persons and Events in the Reigns of James I. and Charles I (1898) 4 copie
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great in eight volumes, Volume II (part of) The Centenary… (1859) 4 copie
Collected Works of (Illustrated) 3 copie
German Romance, Translations from the German with biographical and critical notices in two volumes, II, Hoffmann,… (1898) 3 copie
Carlyle's Works. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Volume IV. (2006) 3 copie
The Works of Thomas Carlyle History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great Volume Two (1897) 3 copie
Carlyle's Works. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Volume V. (2010) 3 copie
History Friedrich II. Of Prussia, Vol. 6 of 10: Frederick the Great (Classic Reprint) (2010) 3 copie
Carlyle's Works. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Volume VII. (2010) 3 copie
The Carlyle anthology 3 copie
Inaugural Address at Edinburgh 3 copie
Lavora non disperarti 3 copie
On Heroes 2 copie
Dante e Shakespeare 2 copie
Essays on Burns & Scott 2 copie
On the Choice of Books (Dodo Press): Classic Work Which Began As An Address To Students Of Edinburgh University, By The… (2007) 2 copie
Selections from Carlyle 2 copie
Sir Walter Scott 2 copie
Wilhelm Meister (3 vols.) 2 copie
Miscellaneous Essays 2 copie
CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS : THE EARLY KINGS OF NORWAY ETC. : EIGHT VOLUMES IN THREE, VOLUME III (1903) 2 copie
Critical And Miscellaneous Essays Collected and Republished (First Time, 1839; Final, 1869) Volume III of IV (1888) 2 copie
Oliver Cromwell's Letters And Speeches with Elucidations By Thomas Carlyle (Everyman 266, 267, 268) (1926) 2 copie
Essays on Literature (Volume 5) (The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle) (2020) 2 copie
History of Frederick the Great of Prussia, called Frederick the Great in eight volumes, Volume VIII: The Centenary… (1864) 2 copie
História da Revolução Francesa 1 copia
Autobiography 1 copia
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Vol. 4: 1826-28 (Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh… (1970) 1 copia
Complete Works of Thomas Carlyle, The (Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with Elucidations vol. 3, The life of… (1906) 1 copia
El Dictador de Francia 1 copia
Reminiscences , Vol I 1 copia
Biografía 1 copia
Den franske revolution 1 copia
The French Rvolution vol 2-3 1 copia
"The Sacredness Of Work" 1 copia
Carlyle 1 copia
Исторические и критические опыты 1 copia
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. 35: January-October 1859 (Collected Letters of Thomas &… (2007) 1 copia
The Thomas Carlyle Collection 1 copia
The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes, Vol. V: Heroes and Hero-Worship, in One Volumes (2016) 1 copia
Reminiscences , Vol II 1 copia
Pagine scelte 1 copia
Carlyle’s Works - 6 Volumes 1 copia
Samuel Johnson 1 copia
French Revolution Vol. III 1 copia
Tre i Norge ved to av dem 1 copia
Essays on Politics and Society (Volume 6) (The Norman and Charlotte Strouse Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle) (2022) 1 copia
The Works of Thomas Carlyle (Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with Elucidations (Volume 7)) 1 copia
Muhammad The Hero as Prophet 1 copia
2: The Works of Thomas Carlyle (Cambridge Library Collection - The Works of Carlyle) (Volume 2) (2010) 1 copia
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia - Frederick The Great-Complete Table of Contents: 22 Volumes (2010) 1 copia
Thomas Carlyle's Works (Popular Edition): Frederick the Great I-IV, VII; Past and Present; Sartor Resartus; Heroes… (1861) 1 copia
Essays on Burns, Scott and Johnson. Edited with marginalia and notes by Henry Williams (Temple Classics.) (1904) 1 copia
Carlyle's Works. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great, Volume II. 1 copia
Carlyle's Works. Last Words. 1 copia
The Works of Thomas Carlyle in Thirty Volumes (Centenary Edition): Vol. XXIX - Critical and Miscellaneous Essays IV… (1899) 1 copia
Oliver Cromwell's letters and Speeches with Elucidations Vol. II, Life of Friedrich Schiller, Including a General… (1885) 1 copia
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays : Collected and Republished : In Four Volumes, Vol. II (1890) 1 copia
Essays on German literature 1 copia
The French Revolution Vols 2 & 3 1 copia
John Knox 1 copia
Goethe's Faust 1 copia
Carlyle's Choice Works 1 copia
THE WORKS OF THOMAS CARLYLE " Sartor Resartus, Past and Present, the Diamond Necklass Mirabeau" (1885) 1 copia
Historical and Political Essays 1 copia
The Works of Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great (Volume 5) 1 copia
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Carlyle: With personal reminiscences and selections from his private letters… (2001) 1 copia
The reign of terror 1 copia
Jesuitism 1 copia
Frederick the Great Vol 1 1 copia
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, Volumes 4-5 - Primary Source Edition (2013) 1 copia
The Life of Samuel Johnson 1 copia
History of Fredrich II of Prussia, called Frederrick the Great in 10 volumes (incomplete set) 1 copia
Selections 1 copia
Carlyle, part one 1 copia
The Pocket Carlyle 1 copia
Two Great Works Complete Sartor Resartus and Heroes and Hero Worship Plus Three Other Major Essays 1 copia
Los primitivos reyes de Noruega 1 copia
The letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell, with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle; ed. in three volumes, with notes,… (2012) 1 copia
Oliver Cromwell I-II 1 copia
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. 37: October 1860- October 1861 (2007) 1 copia
Bohaterowie : cześć dla bohaterów i pierwiastek bohaterstwa w historii : Odyn, Mahomet, Dante, Szekspir, Luter,… (2006) 1 copia
The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Vol. 39: Decembeer 1862- December 1863 (2011) 1 copia
German Romance : Specimens of its Chief Authors, with Biographical and Critical Notices (Vol IV) 1 copia
THOMAS CARLYLE: SELECTIONS 1 copia
Heroes past and present 1 copia
Frederick The Great VIII-VIII 1 copia
Frederick The Great V-VI 1 copia
Frederick The Great III-IV 1 copia
Frederick The Great I-II 1 copia
History of Frederick the Great 1 copia
Worte [Thomas] Carlyles 1 copia
Essays (Everyman's Library) 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Collaboratore — 250 copie
Voices of the Industrial Revolution: Selected Readings from the Liberal Economists and Their Critics (1961) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage, and the Family (1966) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Grolier Classics: Les Miserables, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, French Revolution, Divine Comedy (1955) 16 copie
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Goethes Werke ; Bd. 27 = Abth. 1, Bd. 24 ; [Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, 1. Theil] — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 3 copie
Stories by Musaus and Fouque (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture) (Vol 1) (1991) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1795-12-04
- Data di morte
- 1881-02-05
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Hoddam Kirkyard, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Schots
- Luogo di nascita
- Ecclesmachan, West Lothian, Scotland
- Luogo di morte
- Chelsea, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Annan, Scotland
Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK
Craigenputtock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
London, England, UK - Istruzione
- godsdienst
wiskunde
rechten - Attività lavorative
- rector universiteit Edinburgh
vertaler Duits - Engels
essayist - Relazioni
- Carlyle, Jane Welsh (wife)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste (1874)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1878) - Nota di disambiguazione
- 1) CK Above
2) Erik Bruun actually wrote Test Your History IQ
Smelfungus is a name given by Laurence Sterne to Tobias Smollett as author of a volume of Travels through France and Italy, for the snarling abuse he heaps on the institutions and customs of the countries he visited.
In the 19th century it was adopted by Thomas Carlyle as a pen-name when he had any seriously severe criticisms to offer on things, particularly those that have gone or are going to the bad. Patrick Proctor Alexander also used the name in his book Mill and Carlyle, which contrasted Carlyle's views with those of John Stuart Mill. Proctor's Occasional Discourse on Sauertieg by Smelfungus attacks Carlyle's more brutal ideas.
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Condition: Very Good. 1889. Hardback. 2 vols completing the French Revolution series by Carlyle. Fine in very good half leather over marbled boards, with marbled gold page edges. Covers worn at spine, but remain very good. Vol I-II.
Epopeya histórica, más que historia, de Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), publicada en 1837. El gran escritor inglés da en esta célebre obra una visión de los hechos típicamente epicodramática: relieve estereoscópico de fuerzas espirituales ocultas que afloran por simpatía bajo la penetrante mirada intuitiva del investigador de héroes y fuerzas heroicas, mal disimuladas por la apocalíptica violencia de los acontecimientos. De este procedimiento suyo, por cuadros ricos de color, de movimiento, erizados de sentencias, de epigramas que se resuelven en imágenes fulgurantes, Carlyle da ya memorables ejemplos en los primeros capítulos de su obra.
La obra, con sus defectos y sus parcialidades, como con sus geniales iluminaciones, con su ritmo épico, de la narración, como con su característica interpretación de la Historia pasada en función de los problemas presentes, queda como el monumento tal vez más notable de la historiografía romántica europea.… (altro)
La obra, con sus defectos y sus parcialidades, como con sus geniales iluminaciones, con su ritmo épico, de la narración, como con su característica interpretación de la Historia pasada en función de los problemas presentes, queda como el monumento tal vez más notable de la historiografía romántica europea.… (altro)
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In his history of the French Revolution, Carlyle covers the period from the latter stages of the rule of Louis XV through the famous "Whiff of Grapeshot" employed by Napoleon Bonaparte to quell the uprising of the Jacobins against the National Convention in the aftermath of the downfall of Robespierre and his associates. This is about as close to a day to day or play by play of the events of the revolution as you are likely to encounter. It bears no resemblance to the typical academic history of the revolution, much less the typical textbook treatment of this world historical event. In Carlyle's retelling which was published a mere twenty-two years after the Battle of Waterloo you are introduced to what seems like the proverbial "cast of thousands". Anyone who was anyone appears on Carlyle's stage and his or her role is accounted for and judged according to his influence and merit. On the whole Carlyle is, if not on the side of, definitely sympathetic to the Revolution. The historicist in him seems to require that he pronounce in favor of what is, because it was, a movement, a spirit, an energy whose time had come and was accordingly irresistible. There is no sympathy expressed for the institutions and actors of the ancien regime, although one does detect a certain admiration for the character of Marie Antoinette. Louis XVI, on the other hand, is doomed by the circumstances he is unequipped to deal with and a Hamlet like inability to make up his mind to follow through on a plan of action. He is reduced to a passive, hope for the best, response at every major turning point where a different course of action might have salvaged his situation.
Carlyle takes a harsh attitude toward the nobility and the clergy. He frequently employs the epithets Jesuitical and Jesuitism to criticize anyone of either a royalist or moderate republican bent. He is dismissive of the emigres, approves of the abolition of feudalism. His sympathies are with what he constantly refers to as the 'twenty-five millions", i.e., the population of France suffering from the want of basic means of subsistence, not just political oppression. I was a little surprised at the harsh assessment of the Girondins who are dismissed along with their "Formulas" a term Carlyle employs to indicate his contempt for political theory as opposed to what in other contexts you might call will to power. He seems to approve of the winning side because it is the winning side and therefore deserved to win. He only criticizes the extreme left of the Jacobins after they have completely wiped out their political opposition and committed themselves to a kind of permanent revolution in the manner of their totalitarian admirers and successors in the 20th century.
Carlyle's prose is difficult albeit elegant. It is as if Shakespeare decided to write a 700-page history instead of a five-act play. If you want to fully follow the story it is really valuable to keep your access to the Internet handy to look up all of the characters he introduces who were significant players if only for a brief time in this drama. Also, the text is replete with references to Greek mythology, ancient and medieval history, and the Bible. I found myself constantly pausing to do a search on my cell phone. Sometimes it is necessary to look up a proper name to understand if he refers to a person or a place. And his vocabulary is as challenging as his literary and historical store of knowledge.
I need to mention by way of a recommendation some benefits of the Modern Library edition which may be wanting in other versions. First, there is an index of proper names which although a common feature is not universal but advantageous when a character reappears in the narrative dozens or more pages after being initially introduced. Also, at the top of each page is a reference to the date of the action being described, at least the year, more frequently the month and sometimes the specific date. In the beginning of the book before Carlyle's text there is a Chronology of the events covered in his work. I found it a useful reference. The only negative associated with the Modern Library edition which is shares with other titles published in the Modern Library series is a poor quality of the typescript.
I should like to conclude by way of an example of Carlyle's rhetoric and thought a paragraph from the chapter Rushing Down in the Book entitled Terror the Order of the Day.
"No inconsiderable Oath, truly; forming, as has been often said, the most remarkable transaction in these last thousand years. Wherefrom likewise there follow, and will follow, results. The fulfillment of this Oath; that is to say the black desperate battle of Men against their whole Condition and Environment, -a battle, alas, withal against the Sin and Darkness that was in themselves as in others; this is the Reign of Terror. Transcendental despair was the purport of it, though not consciously so. False hopes, of Fraternity, Political Millenium, and what not, we have always seen: but the unseen heart of the whole, the transcendental despair, was not false; neither has it been of no effect. Despair, pushed far enough, completes the circle, so to speak; and becomes kind of genuine productive hope again."… (altro)