Thomas Carlyle — Literary Relations

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General

• Lionel Stevenson on Carlyle’s “explosive impact on English literature”
• Influence on Contemporary (and Later) Writers
  
• What Some Contemporaries thought about Carlyle's Style
• Sources and Influence
• Henley and Kipling as late-nineteenth-century voices of Carlyle
• “Hero Worship” — a poem about a disciple of Thomas Carlyle
• K. J. Fielding and Frederick W. Hilles on Carlyle’s French connections
• Michael Goldberg on the critical reception of the Latter-Day Pamphlets
• A Poetic Tribnute from Punch

Max Beerbohm

• Beerbohm Parodies the Sages
• Blue China(caricature of Carlyle and Whistler)
• Beerbohm on how the vitality and abundance of Carlyle's ideas creates obscurity

Charlotte Brontë

• Carlyle and Brontë on the Religiosity of the Victorian Age
• Idolatry in "Hudson's Statue" and Jane Eyre
• Tone and Sermon Rhetoric in Carlyle's "Hudson's Statue" and Brontë's Jane Eyre
• Brontë's Shirley as a Condition-of-England Novel

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• Technique in Carlyle, E. B. Browning, and Christina Rossetti
• Greatness in Carlyle's "Characteristics" and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
• Aurora Leigh as Carlylean prophet

Dante Alighieri

• Carlyle, Dante, and Alienation

Charles Dickens

• Swinders and Society
• Carlyle and Dickens on the Dark Side of Freedom of the Press
• Carlyle's Influence upon A Tale of Two Cities

George Eliot

• Gordon S. Haight on Carlyle, Eliot, & Lewes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Sage versus Wisdom Speaker

Charles Kingsley

• Carlyle, Kingsley, and brute force

George Meredith

• Lionel Stevenson on Carlyle and Meredith

John Stuart Mill

• Carlyle, Diderot, & Mill

Christina Rossetti

• Technique in Carlyle, E. B. Browning, and Christina Rossetti

John Ruskin

• Influence on Ruskin
• shared idea(l) of work
• Sartor Resartus on symbolism
• Influenced by Carlyle's idea of myth in Heroes and Hero-Worship
• Carlylean conception of the artist-seer
• Past and Present, travel writing, and Ruskin
• Carlyle, Ruskin, and persuasive description: voice versus eye

Alfred Lord Tennyson

• Alfred Lord Tennyson

William Makepeace Thackeray

• opinion of the novelist

Anthony Trollope

• "What power;--what grandeur": Swindlers as Objects of Admiration in HS and The Way We Live Now
• Ruth ap-Roberts and Clyde de L. Ryals on Carlyle & Trollope

Johann von Goethe

• The image of the Swimmer
• Carlyle's Divergences from Goethe

Twentieth-Century Writers

• The Meaning of the World in the Meaning of a Word: Definitions from Carlyle to Suleri
• How to be smart: Reflections on Thomas Carlyle

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