/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18777955]

Why is it almost impossible to find a new-ish print edition of his work? Was he not one of the most influencial writers in the 19th century? How is it than there are more editions of Nietzsche, a German writer, translated into English than there of are of this man who could be said to be the English Nietzsche?

[Anonymous No.18777993]

bump

[Anonymous No.18778122]

>>18777993
Also bumping your carlyle thread

[Anonymous No.18778123]

>>18777955
https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Writings-Thomas-Carlyle/dp/0141396768/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=thomas+carlyle&qid=1628038604&sr=8-7

[Anonymous No.18778158]

>published 2013
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300148602/heroes-hero-worship-and-heroic-history

[Anonymous No.18778331]

>>18778158
>latter-day pamplets
>past and present
>chartism
>ocassional discourse on the negro question

don't call yourself well read if you haven't read the occasional discourse on the negro question

[Anonymous No.18778752]

>>18777955
THEY DON'T WANT YOU READING CARLYLE

[Anonymous No.18779346]

>>18777955
https://www.delphiclassics.com/shop/thomas-carlyle/

[Anonymous No.18779510]

>>18777955
There are plenty of new prints, it's just that Carlyle in general is not popular today and hated by most academics.

[Anonymous No.18779520]

Reposting.

>Fair day's-wages for fair day's-work! exclaims a sarcastic man: Alas, in what corner of this Planet, since Adam first awoke on it, was that ever realised? The day's-wages of John Milton's day's-work, named Paradise Lost and Milton's Works, were Ten Pounds paid by instalments, and a rather close escape from death on the gallows. Consider that: it is no rhetorical flourish; it is an authentic, altogether quiet fact,—emblematic, quietly documentary of a whole world of such, ever since human history began. Oliver Cromwell quitted his farming; undertook a Hercules' Labour and lifelong wrestle with that Lernean Hydra-coil, wide as England, hissing heaven-high through its thousand crowned, coroneted, shovel-hatted quack-heads; and he did wrestle with it, the truest and terriblest wrestle I have heard of; and he wrestled it, and mowed and cut it down a good many stages, so that its hissing is ever since pitiful in comparison, and one can walk abroad in comparative peace from it;—and his wages, as I understand, were burial under the gallows-tree near Tyburn Turnpike, with his head on the gable of Westminster Hall, and two centuries now of mixed cursing and ridicule from all manner of men. His dust lies under the Edgware Road, near Tyburn Turnpike, at this hour; and his memory is—Nay what matters what his memory is? His memory, at bottom, is or yet shall be as that of a god: a terror and horror to all quacks and cowards and insincere persons; an everlasting encouragement, new memento, battleword, and pledge of victory to all the brave. It is the natural course and history of the Godlike, in every place, in every time. What god ever carried it with the Tenpound Franchisers; in Open Vestry, or with any Sanhedrim of considerable standing? When was a god found 'agreeable' to everybody? The regular way is to hang, kill, crucify your gods, and execrate and trample them under your stupid hoofs for a century or two; till you discover that they are gods,—and then take to braying over them, still in a very long-eared manner!—So speaks the sarcastic man; in his wild way, very mournful truths.

[Anonymous No.18779528]

>>18777955
keep this thread alive. one of the few authors /lit/ discusses that i actually find interesting

[Anonymous No.18779536]

Cambridge still prints all or almost all of his books. They're not new editions though but fascimiles of a 19th century edition of his Collected Works.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-library-collection-the-works-of-carlyle/4CD79969F5A541CFC765EA9740D53A60

[Anonymous No.18779539]

I bought Sartor Resartus from Oxford Classics, great book

[Anonymous No.18779953]

>>18777955
I liked On Hero Worship. Still need to read
>>18778331
and his books on Frederick/The French Revolution.

[Anonymous No.18780004]

>>18777955
>be said to be the English
He wasn't English

[Anonymous No.18780007]

>>18778331
>ocassional discourse on the negro question
that's not what it's called in the book

[Anonymous No.18780120]

>>18780007
Carlyle giving everything a backstory is one of the less important characteristics of his writing but also one of the most entertaining.

[Anonymous No.18780134]

>>18780120
i expected him to be a very dour and grim character, but he's often playful and humourous in his writing

[Anonymous No.18780191]

>>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.

[Anonymous No.18780926]

Bump.