Carlyle on heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history;
1901
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Six lectures Introduction.--The hero as divinity Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian mythology.--The hero as prophet. Mahomet: Islam.--The hero as poet: Dante; Shakespeare.--The hero as priest. Luther; reformation: Knox; puritanism.--The hero as man of letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns.--The hero as king. Cromwell, Napoleon: Modern revolutionism
