Author:Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle
(1795–1881)

Thomas Carlyle

Works

• The Works of Thomas Carlyle (30 volumes)
  • Volume 1 — Sartor Resartus
  • Volume 2 — The French Revolution: A History: Volume I
  • Volume 3 — The French Revolution: A History: Volume II
  • Volume 4 — The French Revolution: A History: Volume III
  • Volume 6 — Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches: Volume I

Main works

• Chartism (1829)
• Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh (1831)
• Public economy concentrated; or, A connected view of currency, agriculture and manufactures (1833) (external scan)
• The French Revolution: A History (1839) (external scan)
• On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History (1841)
• Past and Present (1843) (external scan)
• Life and Letters of Oliver Cromwell (1845)
• Latter-day Pamphlets (1850) (external scan)
• The Life of John Sterling (1851)
• Samuel Johnson (1854) (external scan)
• Frederick the Great (1858)
• The Early Kings of Norway (1875) (transcription project)
• Reminiscenses (1881) (external scan)
• Burns (1854) (external scan)
• On the Choice of Books (1837) (external scan), (external scan)
• Shooting Niagara: and after? (1867) (external scan)
• Lectures on the History of Literature (external scan)
• New Letters of Thomas Carlyle (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)

Poetry

• Cui bono
• Today
• Fortuna

Letters

• Letter to the London Library
• Letter to a Young Man, detailing how to live a full life,
• Letter on Books (1871), published in The Best Hundred Books by The Pall Mall Gazette (1886) (transcription project)
• 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. IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4
• "Johann August Musæus" (1827) (transcription project)
• "Friedrich De La Motte Fouque" (1827) (transcription project)
• "Ludwig Tieck" (1827) (transcription project)
• "E. T. W. Hoffmann" (1827)
• "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

Translations

• German Romance IA 1, IA 2
• By Johann Karl August Musäus:
  • Dumb Love
  • Libussa (transcription project)
  • Melechsala (transcription project)
• By Ludwig Tieck:
  • Eckbert the Blond (transcription project)
  • The Runenberg (transcription project)
  • Trusty Eckart and Tannenhäuser (transcription project)
  • The Elves
  • The Goblet
  • Trusty Eckart: A Romance (transcription project)
• By Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann:
  • The Golden Pot
• By Johann Paul Friedrich Richter:
  • Army-Chaplain Schmelzle's Journey to Flætz
  • Life of Quintus Fixlein
• By Friedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué:
  • Aslauga's Knight (transcription project)
• By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
  • Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship IA 1, IA 2
  • Wilhelm Meister's Travels (external scan)
  • The Tale (transcription project)
  • Novelle (transcription project)

Works about Carlyle

• "Thomas Carlyle," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)
• "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.
• Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795–1835 by James Anthony Froude, 1891 IA 1, IA 2
• Thomas Carlyle. by John Nichol London: Macmillan & Co., 1892. Print. IA
• "The Homes and Haunts of Thomas Carlyle" by Henry Charles Shelley, edited by Westminster Gazette (1895) (start transcription)
• "Thomas Carlyle" in Twelve Types by G. K. Chesterton, 1902
• "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 and Newman" by Frank W. C. Hersey in The Harvard Classics, Vol. 51. 1914
• "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)

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)
• "Carlyle and his German masters," by C. E. Vaughan in Essays and studies: by members of the English Association (1, pp. 168−196), (ed.) by A. C. Bradley, Oxford: Clarendon Press (1910)

Bibliography

• The bibliography of Carlyle