ABSTRACT
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) contributed a review of Lockhart’s life of Burns to the Edinburgh Review 1828. In this he identified as a primary quality of great writing ‘clearness of sight’, that is, a certain graphic immediacy in vision and in presentation. Then follows the passage cited here. Text from The Works of Thomas Carlyle, ed. H. D. Traill (1896–1901), vol. xxvi, pp. 276–7.
