Carlyle Close – Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
Author, biographer and historian

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/learning/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-a-z/carlyle-thomas
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/thomas-carlyle

Thomas Carlyle was born in Scotland, son of a stone mason and strict Calvinist. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh he trained as a minister, became a teacher and then studied law. He wrote essays and articles for The New Edinburgh Review and the Encyclopedia of Edinburgh and worked on criticism and translations. His Life of Schiller was published in The London Magazine in 1825. His first major work was a novel entitled Sartor Resartus (1833–34). In The French Revolution (1837 he argued that its excesses were a divine judgement upon a selfish monarchy and nobility; the book burnished his reputation, after which he gave a series of popular public lectures. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841), Past and Present (1843) and the History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (1858–1865) followed. In the first half of the 20th century Carlyle’s conservative politics and love of all things German, as well as his anti-Semitism and racism, affected his reputation.