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"Our own periodical pulpit": Thomas Carlyle's sermons.(Critical Essay)

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From: Christianity and Literature
Date: 20030101
Author:Swaim, Barton

For more than a century and a half, literary scholars have drawn on the imagery of prophecy to describe the writings of Thomas Carlyle. The authoritative commands, the wholesale denunciations, the exhortations to understand "the times" the emphatic language and syntax of one crying out in the wilderness--all of this makes it difficult to describe Carlyle's work without recourse to the word "prophet" and its variants. Accordingly, many critics have seen in Carlyle's major works an increasing propensity to imitate the tone and style of the Hebrew prophets. Chartism (1839), Past and ...

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