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Biography of Thomas CarlyleName: Thomas CarlyleBirth Date: December 4, 1795 Death Date: February 5, 1881 Place of Birth: Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland Nationality: Scottish Gender: Male Occupations: essayist, historian, critic Thomas Carlyle The British essayist and historian Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was the leading social critic of early Victorian England. Disseminating German idealist thought in his country, with Calvinist zeal he preached against materialism and mechanism during the industrial revolution.Thomas Carlyle was born at Ecclefechan in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, on Dec. 4, 1795. His father, a stonemason, was an intelligent man and a pious Calvinist. Carlyle was educated at Annan Grammar School and Edinburgh University, where he read voraciously and distinguished himself in mathematics. He abandoned his original intention to enter the ministry and turned instead first to schoolteaching and then to literary hackwork, dreaming all the while of greatness as a writer. A reading of Madame de Staël's Germany introduced him to German thought and literature, and in 1823-1824 he published a Life of Schiller in the London Magazine and in 1824 a translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship .Meanwhile Carlyle had passed through a …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Carlyle (1932). Also useful is Basil Willey, Nineteenth Century Studies (1949). Recommended for general historical background are George Macaulay Trevelyan, British History in the Nineteenth Century and After, 1782-1919 (1922; new ed. 1937); David C. Somervell, English Thought in the Nineteenth Century (1929; 6th ed. 1950); G. M. Young, Victorian England: Protrait of an Age (1936; 2d ed. 1953); and Walter E. Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 (1957).Campbell, Ian, Thomas Carlyle, New York: Scribner, 1975, 1974.Clubbe, John, comp., Two reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1974.Conway, Moncure Daniel, Thomas Carlyle, Folcroft, Pa.: Folcroft Library Editions, 1977.Froude, James Anthony, Froude's Life of Carlyle, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1979.Garnett, Richard, Life of Thomas Carlyle, New York: AMS Press, 1979.Kaplan, Fred, Thomas Carlyle: a biography, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.Lammond, D., Carlyle, Philadelphia: R. West, 1978.Nicoll, Henry James., Thomas Carlyle, Philadelphia: R. West, 1977.Sagar, S., Round by Repentance Tower: a study of Carlyle, Philadelphia: R. West, 1977. |