Thomas Carlyle
Bio
Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish cultural critic, essayist, historian, lecturer, mathematician, philosopher and translator. Dubbed the "Sage of Chelsea," he exerted an enormous influence on the intellectual currents of the Victorian age; as George Eliot wrote, "there is hardly a superior or active mind of this generation that has not been modified by Carlyle’s writings." His writing has been described as proto-postmodern.