"In the first place that appalling style, with its repetitiveness, its overemphasis, its perpetual note of adjuration, its shrillness and exaggeration, with no soft tones at all, the trumpets always braying and that rather discordantly: it makes him almost impossible to read... Yet for all his defects Carlyle was unmistakably a man of genius. He was that very unattractive kind of genius, a prophet. All prophets are misfits; and that throws a flood of light on the source and conditioning of their "message"."
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A. L. Rowse, ‘Carlyle's Past and Present’, The English Spirit: Essays in History and Literature (1944), p. 223
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Thomas Carlyle
1795 – 1881
schottischer Essayist und Historiker
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