About the Author
V S Seturaman - Former Professor and Head, Department of English, Postgraduate Centre of SV University, Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. C T Indra - Faculty, Department of English, University of Madras.

Table of Contents
Introduction • Part • Thomas Carlyle • The Hero as Poet: Dante; Shakespeare • John Henry Newman • Knowledge Its Own End • Literature • John Ruskin • The Veins of Wealth • Qui Judicatis Terram • Matthew Arnold • Sweetness and Light • Doing As One Likes • Part II • Thomas Carlyle • Form Signs of the Times • From Sartor Resartus • John Henry Newman • From Apologia Pro Vita Sua • From Obedience Without Love • As Instanced In The Character Of Balaam • Thomas Babbington Macaulay • London in 1685 • Von Ranke • John Stuart Mill • From Autobiography • From Subjection of Women • Charles Darwin • From on the Origin of Species • James Anthony Froude • St. Hugh of Lincoln • Matthew Arnold • Speech on Retirement • Bibliography