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Scotland's Holy Ground for Lovers of Literature
Prof Phelps at Yale extols Scotland’s literary landscape linking Burns Carlyle and Scott as holy ground from Glasgow to Edinburgh. Describes Carlyle birthplace at Ecclefechan, Craigenputtock, and Düsseldorf-like rooms, contrasts with Schiller Goethe rooms, and notes Tennyson and Carlyle rivalry. Mentions David Alex Wilson's Life of Carlyle, a major four-volume biography from the era.
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Scotland
Prof. Phelps
Foslay
Wiliam Lyon
Phelps, Tampson
Rofesaur
Yale University
Dayer
Kale
Clagges
Ile
Peete
Onegihie
Thomas Carlyle
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Robert Burns
Thomas’ Carlyle
Walter Scott
Carlyle
Ecclefechan
Froude
Carlisle
G. K. Chesterton
United States
Carlyles
Thomas
Europe
Weimar
Schiller
Schiffer
Goethe
Cheyne Row
London
Carlyle Museum
Westminster Abbey
Jane Welsh
Comely Bank
Tennyson
Alfred
Bull Durham
McCabe
Virginia
Laurgate
Craigenputtock
Dumfries
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doctor Johnston
James Boswell
David Alex Wilson