Carlyle
Victorian prose stylist
Carlyle typically refers to Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), the Scottish essayist and historian whose dense, prophetic prose style influenced Victorian thought.
His emphasis on heroic individuals and skepticism of democracy appears in works like *On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History*.
Carlyle also names places and institutions, including the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.
Author of short prose
- biographerOne who writes lives
- historianExpert on past events
- satiristOne who mocks through wit
- criticOne who judges merit
pamphleteer · prose · lecturer · sage · eloquence · style · controversial · polemic
Anglo surname, various namesakes
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- RuskinVictorian aesthete and essayist
- TennysonVictorian English poet laureate
- social reformOrganized push for societal betterment
Intuition-based idealist philosophy
- idealismBelief in noble principles
- hero worshipUncritical devotion to someone
- anti-materialismOpposition to prioritizing possessions
- spiritualismCommunion with the deceased
romanticism · prophetic · wisdom · truth · society · critique · earnestness · sincerity
Of a prim era
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- reformImprove by correcting faults
- empireDomain under unified control
steam age · social upheaval · British history · colonialism · morality · progress · machinery
English republican dictator
essayist
Author of short prose
- biographerOne who writes lives
- historianExpert on past events
- satiristOne who mocks through wit
critic · pamphleteer · prose · lecturer · sage · eloquence · style · controversial · polemic · Victorian literature
Emerson
Anglo surname, various namesakes
- DickensSurname of Victorian novelist
- RuskinVictorian aesthete and essayist
- TennysonVictorian English poet laureate
social reform · Chelsea · Edinburgh · London
transcendentalism
Intuition-based idealist philosophy
- idealismBelief in noble principles
- hero worshipUncritical devotion to someone
- anti-materialismOpposition to prioritizing possessions
spiritualism · romanticism · prophetic · wisdom · truth · society · critique · earnestness · sincerity · duty
Victorian
Of a prim era
- nineteenth centuryYears 1801-1900
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- reformImprove by correcting faults
empire · steam age · social upheaval · British history · colonialism · morality · progress · machinery
Oliver Cromwell
English republican dictator
CarlyleJohn Stuart Mill
British empiricist and reformer
egalitarian · Thomas Paine · John Locke · utilitarian · democrat
Carlylenovelist
Writer of prose narratives
fiction writer · Charles Dickens · George Eliot · poet · dramatist
CarlyleJohn Stuart Mill
British empiricist and reformer
democrat · liberal · abolitionist · Frederick Douglass · Harriet Beecher Stowe