ABSTRACT
1838
Unsigned review by Thomas Carlyle of the first six volumes of Lockhart’s Life of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet (quoted here from Carlyle’s Miscellaneous Essays, III (London, 1888, 167–223). This review first appeared in the London and Westminster Review (January 1838), xxviii, 293–345, and became a reference point for many later critics.
An introductory section, which has here been omitted, deals first with hero worship and then with Lockhart’s Life.
