Who called Carlyle the "undoubted head of English letters"?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles Dickens
John Stuart Mill
George Eliot
Answer
American writer and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson referred to Thomas Carlyle as the "undoubted head of English letters," highlighting Carlyle's significant influence on 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy.
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