The Phantom of the Opera worships Mammon in Frederick Forsyth's The Phantom of Manhattan. In The Alchemist by Ben Jonson, Sir Epicure Mammon is a man obsessed with material wealth. O. Henry's short ...
In the opinion of James Russell Lowell, Carlyle possessed "a mastery of language equalled only by the greatest poets". [25] Anthony Trollope called Carlyle "our dear old English Homer—Homer in prose".