On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history

by Thomas Carlyle

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1897. Six lectures reported, with emendations and additions. Contents: Hero as Divinity (Odin; Paganism; Scandinavian mythology); Hero as Prophet (Mohammed; Islam); Hero as Poet (Dante; Shakespeare); Hero as Priest (Luther; Reformation, Knox; Puritanism); Hero as Man of Letters (Johnson, Rousseau, Burns); Hero as King (Cromwell, Napoleon; Modern Revolutionism).

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