Carlyle and the Burden of History

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover large octavo with green DJ. viii, 209 pages: 1 portrait; 22 cm Fine. Pages clean and binding tight. DJ is fine with light sunning on spine. Great copy. . Hardcover. ISBN: 0674097548

"A symbolist masterpiece or a Victorian-Gothic fairy tale? Rosenberg challenges the modernist orthodoxy that rejects all of Victorian poetry as a Wate Land and ignores the overriding importance of Tennyson to the development of Yeats, T. S. Eliot, and the symbolists. He shows that in the Idylls Tennyson created a new genre whose true originality critism has been slow to percieve." -- Back cover. Historiography. Essays. History. French revolution. Criticism and interpretation. Thomas Carlyle.