Thomas Carlyle

by David Gascoyne

Thomas Carlyle was a nineteenth-century Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian. Famous for his distinctively energetic style of prose, he was considered by Ralph Waldo Emerson to be the 'undoubted head of English letters'. His collected works run to thirty volumes, including the influential history The French Revolution (1837). Following his appropriation by Nazi ideologues, Carlyle's popularity waned in the early twentieth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582010233
• ISBN13: 9780582010239
• Release Date: August 1979
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 36 Pages