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Poet Thomas Carlyle 1795–1881
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Subjects Time & Brevity, Living
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
Biography
Thomas Carlyle was an extremely long-lived Victorian author. He was also highly controversial, variously regarded as sage and impious, a moral leader, a moral desperado, a radical, a conservative, a Christian. Contradictions were rampant in the works of early biographers, and in the later twentieth century he is still far from being understood by a generation of critics awakening to his pivotal place in nineteenth-century . . .
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SUBJECT Time & Brevity, Living
POET’S REGION Scotland
SCHOOL / PERIOD Victorian
Poetic Terms Rhymed Stanza
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