On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle · 1841
A collection of six 1840 lectures by Thomas Carlyle examining great men throughout history, including Odin, Mahomet, Dante, Luther, Johnson, and Cromwell, arguing that heroes in forms such as divinity, prophet, poet, priest, man of letters, and king shape universal history.
Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.
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