Author:Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

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Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian

Thomas Carlyle

Works

• The Works of Thomas Carlyle (30 volumes)

Main works

• Chartism, 1829
• Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh, 1831
• The French Revolution: A History, 1839 external source
• On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, 1841
• Past and Present, 1843 external source
• Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell, 1845
• Latter-day Pamphlets, 1850 external source
• Life of John Sterling, in Two Biographies, 1845 external source
• Samuel Johnson, 1854 external source
• Frederick the Great, 1858
• The Early Kings of Norway, 1875 (transcription project)
• Reminiscenses, 1881 (external scan)
• Sartor Resartus and On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (Macmillan), 1901
• Burns, 1854 external source
• On the Choice of Books, 1837 external source, 1866 memorial edition external source
• Shooting Niagara: and after?, 1867 short work external source
• Lectures on the History of Literature external source

Poetry

• Cui bono
• Today
• Fortuna

Letters

• Letter to the London Library
• Letter to a Young Man, detailing how to live a full life
• Petition on the Copyright Bill, 1839 open letter sent to the London Examiner

Essays

• "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" in Fraser's Magazine (1849)
• Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1869), in 4 vols. (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3, 4)

Translations

• German Romance (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• By Johann Karl August Musäus:
  • Dumb Love
  • Libussa
  • Melechsala
• By Ludwig Tieck:
  • Eckbert the Blond
  • The Runenberg
  • Trusty Eckart and Tannenhäuser
  • The Elves
  • The Goblet
  • Trusty Eckart: A Romance
• E.T.W. Hoffmann's The Golden Pot

Works about Carlyle

• "Carlyle and Newman" by Frank W. C. Hersey in The Harvard Classics, Vol. 51. 1914
• "Carlyle, Thomas," by Alfred H. Guernsey in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885-1900) in 63 vols.
• "Carlyle, Thomas," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Carlyle, Thomas," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Carlyle, Thomas," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Carlyle, Thomas," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Carlyle, Thomas," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Carlyle, Thomas," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 by James Anthony Froude, 1891 (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• "Thomas Carlyle" in Twelve Types by G. K. Chesterton, 1902
• Thomas Carlyle. by John Nichol London: Macmillan & Co., 1892. Print. (external scan)
• "Thomas Carlyle," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)

On his works

• "Thomas Carlyle" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2) (December 1857)
• "Sartor Resartus," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Frederick the Great," by Archibald MacMechan in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "French Revolution, The (Carlyle)," by Archibald MacMechan in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Heroes and Hero-worship," by Archibald MacMechan in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Past and Present," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Sartor Resartus," by Archibald MacMechan in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)