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“... Most conscientious biographers are aware of their subjects’ shades vigilantly or solicitously hovering over their shoulders as they write. The biographer of Thomas Carlyle is supervised more severely than most: the irritable, brooding Scotsman, the would-be redeemer, and, failing that, the scourge of Victorian England, seems to breathe flame down his neck ...”

“... time. The poems are medievally Romantic: there are three by Rossetti, others by Browning, Poe and Tennyson, with four verses from ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, and although there are no decorated capitals, Burne-Jones attempted to make the whole delightful thing look like an illuminated book. All the methods of work and related designs are traced in the ...”