Thomas Carlyle

Her first epigraph, from Thomas Carlyle 's essay Biography, counters the view of novelists and their work as foolish.

In 1850 JSM published his letter The Negro Question in Fraser's Magazine. Presented as a letter to the editor, it responds to Thomas Carlyle 's Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, which had...

Jane Welsh wrote to her cousin Jeannie Welsh on her engagement to Thomas Carlyle : Oh, if I might write my own biography from beginning to end—without reservation or false colouring—it would be an invaluable...

In her efforts to promote Temperance and education for women, CB toured and lectured to various audiences. When asked by Thomas Carlyle whether she ever ceased to feel nervous before lecturing, she replied: Oh, no...

Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy , Ibsen , and Zolarepulsive in the...

She followed Shakespeare Criticism 1919-1935 with Shakespeare Criticism 1935-1960 in 1963. With the first of her volumes she had declined to follow directly on the earlier volume in the series (which ended with...

In Carlyle, LK eulogizes an old family friend, Thomas Carlyle , and thanks the mourners who gathered at his dishonoured grave. The dishonour mentioned in the poem might be a reference to the...

Hughes regarded the most important essay here as the first, Summary of Results, which selectively sketches the history of philosophy insofar as it bears on CN 's own interests. He also judged the second,...

This collection of essays, written at various times from about thirty years before its publication, constitutes a more thorough and effective study of psychological aesthetics than those undertaken by Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson on visual...

CP's discussion of Pantheism begins with Hindu and Buddhist texts (The Vedas, Brahminism, The Vedanta Philosophy, The Bhagavad Gita), then moves through several Greek schools. In the modern period she...

Subjects of poems here include Dickens , Thomas and Jane Carlyle, Siegfried Sassoon , Anna Akhmatova , Bella Akhmadulina , Billie Holliday , and Raymond Chandler . In Betrayal, a reply to Shakespeare

The spur was the unfairness which she perceived in Froude 's life of Thomas Carlyle .

Her other topics include artists and male literary figures, including Carlyle , Goethe , Emerson , and Shakespeare . Fifteen poems in the collection are written about places, among them London, Birmingham, and...

Here she recorded her meetings with English literary figures: Maria Edgeworth , William Wordsworth , and Thomas Carlyle .

This work is not so much a diary as a working notebook: its seven sketches take events or issues from VW ' life as grist to (in Doris Lessing 's words) five-finger exercises for future...