Note 932 — Chapter II · BETWEEN COLERIDGE AND ARNOLD.

Any one anxious really to appreciate Carlyle’s potentia as a literary critic may be specially commended to this. It was written, of course, not merely before he developed his own style, but before the freer modern criticism had been largely developed by anybody except apart-dwelling stars like Coleridge. But it brands the author as a great critic if he chose. He did not wholly choose: and, later, he refused.