Talk:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Notability tag

Since I don't use watchlists I've only just noticed that a year ago a Book Notability tag was put on this article. I believe my best defence of the book's notability would be by applying the criterion that "The book's author is so historically significant that any of the author's written works may be considered notable". The Britannica says that Carlyle was "one of the most important social critics of his era and a leading moral force in Victorian literature". Victorian Era calls him "one of the most important writers and philosophers of Scottish origin who published his works during the Victorian Era". The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English says "To contemporaries he was the leading thinker of his day, a challenging, commanding, if at times exasperating figure to reckon with. There are few Victorians whose work does not reflect his ideas – if only in the process of rejecting them." Does anyone want to comment? --Antiquary (talk) 19:19, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

I have notified the editor who originally put the notability tag on this article, but he hasn't responded to me or posted here. In view of the undoubted enormous influence Carlyle had on Victorian thought I don't see how this article could possibly fail to meet the criterion quoted above, and I'm removing the tag. --Antiquary (talk) 12:10, 21 December 2021 (UTC)