On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history
Subtitle: [1840]
By: by Thomas Carlyle
Publisher: F.A. Stokes
Published: 1890
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Heroes
Other titles: Heroes and hero-worship
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The hero as divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian mythology.; title: The hero as prophet. Mahomet: Islam.; title: The hero as poet. Dante; Shakespeare.; title: The hero as priest. Luther; Reformation: Knox; Puritanism.; title: The hero as man of letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns.; title: The hero as king. Cromwell, Napoleon: modern revolutionism.