Poetry
For there is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Thomas Carlyle
Scotsh author, essayist, and historian Quelle: Sir Walter Scott, London and Westminster Review
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| born | * December 4, 1795, Ecclefechan | |
| died | † February 4, 1881, London, England | |
| function | author, essayist, and historian | |
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