/lit/ - Literature

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>>20075051
>How great he was! He made history a song for the first time in our language. He was our English Tacitus.
- Oscar Wilde on Carlyle

>>19740632
American Transcendentalism would not exist without Carlyle plain and simple.

What do Scottish people think of Carlyle?

>Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Down-pulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh, the vast, gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the Living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

>>18780134
Varying by the description, Carlyle was a sour misanthrope that would scoff at anyone who talked to him, or a very talkative and polite gentleman.

Carlyle thread.