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The bond between Thomas Carlyle and his younger American mentee Ralph Waldo Emerson was for a long time seen as the defining transatlantic partnership of the Anglophone nineteenth century. The productive tension between irascible Scot and enigmatic Yankee was seen as the era’s inescapable double act. The frenemies that helped explain both Old World and New. For F.O. Matthiessen in American Renaissance (1941), they were the channel through which Kantian thought flowered into New England Transc... |
