Volume 21, Number 11 · June 27, 1974
Carlyle, Our Hero?
By Noel Annan
The Seventh Hero: Thomas Carlyle and the Theory of Radical Activism
by Philip Rosenberg
Harvard University Press, 288 pp., $10.00
Philip Rosenberg, so the blurb tells us, 'dramatically reverses the standard interpretation of Carlyle…and explores for the first time the radical dimension of Carlyle's works.' Odd, I thought. Surely this was done for the first time thirty years ago by Eric Bentley in A Century of Hero-Worship. So I turned next to the index of Rosenberg's book where the first reference to Bentley was on page 39 and read as follows:
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