WorkThomas Carlyle

“Characteristics”

"Characteristics" (Edinburgh Review, vol. 54, December 1831, pp. 351-383)

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · Edinburgh Review, vol. 54, December 1831, pp. 351-383

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Documented 1835

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

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“I often try to solace my self by repeating when alone Carlyle's beautiful rhapsodies on the almost miraculous benefits of silence”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Fuller names Carlyle and paraphrases his "beautiful rhapsodies on the almost miraculous benefits of silence," which Hudspeth identified as drawn from Carlyle's essay “Characteristics” in the Edinburgh Review.