Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with Elucidation; The Early Kings of Norway; The Life of Friedrich Schiller. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches with Elucidation; The Early Kings of Norway; The Life of Friedrich Schiller

A very good copy of this scarce three-volumes-in-two edition. Not dated but appears to be from around the 1870's. The coarse maroon cloth binding is lightly worn with some overall soiling and some mottling to the cloth on Volume III. The binding is very sound overall. Contents are clean and bright with no ownership inscriptions or other markings of any kind. The end-papers are uncracked. "In later writings, Carlyle sought to examine instances of heroic leadership in history. The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845) presented a positive image of Cromwell: someone who attempted to weld order from the conflicting forces of reform in his own day. Carlyle sought to make Cromwell's words live in their own terms by quoting him directly, and then commenting on the significance of these words in the troubled context of the time. Again this was intended to make the 'past' 'present' to his readers. Carlyle is also important for helping to introduce German Romantic literature to Britain. Although Samuel Taylor Coleridge had also been a proponent of Schiller, Carlyle's efforts on behalf of Schiller and Goethe would bear fruit.". …