31 letters found
- 108 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Friday, 16 March 1877.
- in note 24:
... 20. Dorn considers this line to be one of Thomas Carlyle’s central theses, seeing in it a paraphra...
- 132 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 21 October 1877.
- in translation:
...ith many books, such as those by Michelet and Carlyle and also Dickens (Tale of two cities). In all ...
- in note 26:
...d story of The French Revolution (1837) by Thomas Carlyle, probably through Histoire de la littératu...
- 133 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Tuesday, 30 October 1877.
- in note 2:
... Gogh could have encountered passages from Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution. The most likely ...
- in translation:
...one’s heart. I rather envy your having read Carlyle, ‘French Revolution’, it’s not unknown t...
- 134 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 19 November 1877.
- in translation:
...t ploughing with a white horse in the foreground, and it also made me think of Michelet and Carlyle.
- 143 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Wednesday, 3 April 1878.
- in note 7:
...ave taken this phrase from Taine’s essay on Carlyle in Histoire de la littérature anglaise (see T...
- 155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.
- in note 4:
... (1863), in his discussion of the ideas of Thomas Carlyle. See Pollock and Orton 1978, p. 8. In this ...
- 187 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 19 November 1881.
- in translation:
...on, for instance, Michelet and Beecher Stowe, Carlyle and George Eliot, and how many others, they ca...
- 211 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
- in note 14:
Thomas Carlyle wrote The French Revolution (1837), a dramatized account, and supplied the 1845 editio...
- in translation:
... man (if he weren’t a fisherman he’d be Tom Carlyle – the author of the French Revolution and ...
- 249 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 July 1882.
- in note 10:
This remark may be based on a passage in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor resartus. See Dorn in exhib. cat. ...
- 274 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 22 October 1882.
- in note 11:
...obably borrowed it from Sartor resartus by Thomas Carlyle, who writes ‘The end of Man is an Action,...
- 288 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882.
- in translation:
...to do; there’s an abundance of subjects and Carlyle rightly says, Blessed is he who has found his ...
- in note 21:
Borrowed from Thomas Carlyle, Past and present. Ed. London 1897, p. 197 (‘Labour’, chapter 11). A...
- 294 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Wednesday, 13 and about Monday, 18 December 1882.
- in note 1:
For this Carlyle quotation from Past and present, see letter 288, n. 21.
- in translation:
...e. Blessed is he who has found his work, says Carlyle, and that’s absolutely true. And as for me, ...
- 312 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 February 1883.
- in note 2:
...that it should lead to ‘action’, to a deed, may be borrowed from Carlyle: see letter 274, n. 11.
- 325 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 5 March 1883.
- in note 36:
Carlyle unmasks the farce of outward appearances, and points despite his pessimism to Christian faith...
- in note 34:
Thomas Carlyle incorporated his spiritual concerns and some autobiographical information into the sat...
- in note 33:
...s portrait engraving after a photograph of Thomas Carlyle in The Graphic 1 (30 April 1870), p. 516. I...
- in translation:
Do you have the portrait of Carlyle — that beautiful one in The Graphic? At the moment I’m readin...
- 327 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 11 March 1883.
- in note 4:
... who has found his work’, quoted earlier from Carlyle’s Past and present: see letter 288, n. 21.
- 345 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Monday, 21 May 1883.
- in note 6:
...of the gospel to the French Constitution from Carlyle or Michelet. See Sund 1992, pp. 260-261 (nn. 8...
- 356 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 22 June 1883.
- in note 8:
Carlyle writes: ‘Knowest thou that “Worship of Sorrow”? The Temple thereof, opened some eightee...
- in translation:
...h in it. A truly English remark is the one by Carlyle, ‘The result of an idea must not be a feelin...
- 358 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 2 July 1883.
- in note 2:
Two etched portraits of Carlyle by Alphonse Legros are known: Petit portrait de Thomas Carlyle (Small...
- in note 12:
...ned later, allude to two chapter titles in Thomas Carlyle, Sartor resartus, book 2, chapters 7 and 9....
- 359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.
- in translation:
... I read a remark of his — about Dickens and Carlyle: ‘the essence of the English character is th...
- 363 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, Sunday, 22 July 1883.
- in note 9:
...spired by what Van Gogh had read about ‘action’ in Carlyle: see letters 356, n. 7 and 312, n. 2.
- 382 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Thursday, 6 September 1883.
- in note 4:
Van Gogh earlier quoted from Carlyle’s Sartor resartus: ‘Knowest thou that “Worship of Sorrow...
- 395 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Friday, 12 or Saturday, 13 October 1883.
- in note 8:
This expression derives from Thomas Carlyle, On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (1841)...
- in translation:
I read a very good book by Carlyle, Heroes and hero-worship, full of nice things, like for instance, ...
- 398 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, on or about Monday, 22 October 1883.
- in note 2:
...is not enough but has to lead to ‘action’, could be derived from Carlyle: see letter 274, n. 11.
- 400 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 28 October 1883.
- in note 14:
...‘quite a royal feeling’ in the work of Thomas Carlyle, including On heroes, hero-worship and the ...
- in note 11:
...s to lead to ‘action’, could be derived from Carlyle’s Sartor resartus: see letter 274, n. 11.
- in translation:
...oll about the countryside and work, with what Carlyle calls quite a royal feeling. We can work becau...
- 405 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Sunday, 11 November 1883.
- in note 5:
Carlyle restored Cromwell, who had become idealized over time, to his rightful position as a historic...
- in translation:
... the Puritans and the history of Cromwell, as Carlyle conceived it, for instance, made me see how mu...
- 437 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 13 March 1884.
- in note 2:
...el linked this passage with the ideas of George Eliot and Thomas Carlyle; see Zemel 1997, pp. 62-64.
- 550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
- in note 5:
An allusion to the theme of Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle; cf. letter 325, n. 34.
- 560 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Tuesday, 9 February 1886.
- in note 9:
...in his study or one of the other portraits of Carlyle by Legros that have survived, cf. letter 358, ...
- in note 10:
...s wife in 1866 (their marriage was childless) Carlyle led a lonely and reclusive existence. He seldo...
- in translation:
Tell me, have you ever read anything by Carlyle? Actually that’s not necessary when one sees the fe...
- 660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.
- in note 15:
...find any reference to hairstyles in Brazil in Carlyle, but there is a passage about sticks to which ...
- in translation:
Stronger than that is what Carlyle says. You know the fireflies in Brazil that are so luminous that i...
- 673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.
- in note 3:
...nowledge of Dante may have been based on what Carlyle wrote in On heroes, hero-worship and the heroi...
- 754 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 4 April 1889.
- in translation:
...hings so profound that one must re-read them often, it has a very great deal in common with Carlyle.
1 essay item found
- Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
- in letter_writer_4:
...whether he knew the portrait of the writer Thomas Carlyle, and went on to discuss his Sartor resartus...
1 other item found
- Chronology
- in 1883:
... #Reads Eliot’s Middlemarch (316). Re-reads Carlyle’s Sartor resartus (274, 325) and Hugo’s No...
October
#Re-reads Carlyle’s On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history (395).
- in 1877:
October
#Reads Dickens’s A tale of two cities and Carlyle’s The French Revolution (132).
- in 1875:
...oems and prose fragments by Heine, Uhland, Sainte-Beuve, Carlyle, Michelet and Goethe, among others.
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Dated between:
29 September 1872 and 31 July 1890
Person:
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) English writer and philosopher
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