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Usually this final stage is passed in solitude: Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strome der Welt. After writing a life of Schiller which almost anyone might have written, Carlyle retired for some years to Craigenputtoch, and then brought forth Sartor Resartus, which was personal and soul-revealing to the verge of eccentricity.
Let us place a page from Sartor Resartus beside a page from Macaulay's History of England, or either beside a page from Arnold's Literature and Dogma or one from the Stones of Venice. Here are four typical styles in prose, each of which has been much admired and imitated; yet they differ as widely as Shelley from Ovid, or Tennyson from Pope.
"Sartor Resartus" is notable in the literary history of Carlyle as revealing the Germanization of his mind, and his abandonment of the comparatively simple diction of his earlier essays for the thoroughly individual style of his later works eruptive, ejaculatory, but always powerful, and often rising to an epic sublimity.
Why don't he bite you? He savvee you Tahitian eh?" Noa Noah shook his head and grinned. "He no savvee me Tahitian," he explained. "He savvee me wear pants all the same white man." "You'll have to give him a course in 'Sartor Resartus," Sheldon laughed, as he came down and began to make friends with Satan.
Edin., studies for Church but gives it up, tries law, then tutor, takes to literature and writes for encyclopædias and magazines, and translates, m. 1826 Jane Welsh, settles in Edin., writes essays in Edinburgh Review, goes to Craigenputtock 1828, writes Sartor and corresponds with Goethe, Sartor appears in Fraser's Magazine 1833-4, settles in London 1834, pub.
"Sartor Resartus is what old Dennis used to call 'a heap of clotted nonsense, mixed however, here and there, with passages marked by thought and striking poetic vigor. But what does the writer mean by 'Baphometic fire-baptism'? Why cannot he lay aside his pedantry, and write so as to make himself generally intelligible?
Has traveled widely in South America, including Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego. Spent more than a year upon an uninhabited island, accompanied only by "Sartor Resartus." First story: "How Lazy Sam Got His Raise," Youth's Companion, 1897. Author of "Guided by the World," 1901; "A Bohemian Life," 1902. Lives in Fayetteville, Ark. *Ebro. Jack Random. *Doom's-Day Envelope. #Follett, Wilson.# *Dive.
"Sartor Resartus," one of the Battle-cries of Life, and "Past and Present," which has small mercy for idlers and pleasure-seekers, are character-making books: "There went to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran," and there also go, to the making of man and woman, certain books. These may vary in each case and in generation. Tom Brown and Mr.
'Well, he said, 'they have been reading to me Sartor Resartus; and oh!
It has a vividness and picturesqueness all his own, but when Carlyle began to write people cared neither for his style nor for his subjects. He found publishers hard to persuade, and life was by no means easy. When Sartor was finished Carlyle took it to London, but could find no one willing to publish it.
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