Carlyle was for many years on terms of closest friendship with John Stuart Mill, John Sterling, and Robert Browning. The letters to Mill, nearly eighty in number, fill more than half the volume. The letters to John Sterling, whom Carlyle met through Mill and whose biography he afterward wrote, are thirty-three in number. The letters to Browning are not many, for the poet lived within easy reach of Cheyne Row._""This is a rich volume."" TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries; Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College.
Thomas Carlyle was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
Coming from a strict Calvinist family, Carlyle was expected by his parents to become a preacher, but while at the University of Edinburgh, he lost his Christian faith. Calvinist values, however, remained with him throughout his life. This combination of a religious temperament with loss of faith in traditional Christianity made Carlyle's work appealing to many Victorians who were grappling with scientific and political changes that threatened the traditional social order.
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