Coleman, Henry Freeman

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Degree Type: thesisDegree Name: Master of Arts (MA)Date of Degree: 1937Granting Institution: Atlanta UniversityDepartment/ School: EnglishThomas Carlyle has been the recipient of much praise for the contribution he made to the great body of English literature of the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, the volume of adverse criticism of his writings is also very large. Without discussing the reasons for the unfavorable comment one may note that very little of it takes the form of patient analysis of what Carlyle actually said on a given topic through a series of discussions. Most of the comment takes the form either of reference to individual expressions in Carlyle's writings or of sweeping generalizations in regard to his works as a whole. It seems that either method opens opportunity for judgments as faulty as those of Carlyle on which critics comment so freely. It appears worth while, therefore, to sift Carlyle's writings in order to sort out end catalogue, so to speak, his many thoughts on the various topics that appealed especially to his interest. Under the circumstances such a herculean task would be impossible for this writer; however, to examine a body of Carlyle's works in order to select a group of representative thoughts along one specific line has seemed to be within the range of possibility and promises to be of no small value to those who would judge Carlyle not by hearsay nor by general impressions but by just such a group of expressions taken from his writings and sufficiently comprehensive to...

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