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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Carlyle on heroes, hero-worship. Boston, Ginn, 1901 (OCoLC)561770335 Online version: Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. Carlyle on heroes, hero-worship. Boston, Ginn, 1901 (OCoLC)596085070 |
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| Named Person: | Muḥammad, Prophet; Dante Alighieri; William Shakespeare; Martin Luther; John Knox; Samuel Johnson; Oliver Cromwell |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Thomas Carlyle; Archibald MacMechan |
| OCLC Number: | 363015 |
| Notes: | Six lectures. |
| Description: | lxxxviii, 396 p. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Athenaeum Press series |
| Other Titles: | On heroes, Hero-worship, and the heroic in history. |
| Responsibility: | ed. by A. MacMechan. |
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