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Publication place. England. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History is a book by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, published by James Fraser, London, in 1841. It is a collection of six lectures given in May 1840 about prominent historical figures. It lays out Carlyle's belief in the importance of heroic ...
This awareness of differences between high life and low, a state of affairs fertile in creative tensions, is observable throughout the history of English literature. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841 and based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840.
Jul 26, 2008 · ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle Transcriber's Note: The text is taken from the printed "Sterling Edition" of Carlyle's Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the ... The History of the World, I said already, was the Biography of Great Men. Such small critics do what they can to promote unbelief and universal spiritual paralysis: but happily they cannot always completely succeed. In all times it is possible for a man to arise great enough to feel that they ...
Apr 14, 2010 · Thomas Carlyle's On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history; Bookreader Item Preview ... Thomas Carlyle's On heroes, hero-worship, and the heroic in history; by Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881; Gray, Henry David, 1873- ed. Publication date 1906 Publisher New York, London, Longmans, Green, and Co. Collection library_of_congress; americana Contributor The Library of Congress Language
Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History remains one of the best repositories in English of the development in late Romanticism called heroic vitalism. The book, a ...
Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History considers the creation of heroes and the ways they exert heroic leadership. From the divine and prophetic (Odin and Muhammad) to the poetic (Dante and Shakespeare) to the religious (Luther and Knox) to the political (Cromwell and Napoleon), Carlyle investigates the mysterious qualities that elevate humans to cultural significance.
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Aug 20, 2013 · Seminary Co-op. Description. Authors. Praise. Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle’s On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History considers the creation of heroes and t...
Aug 29, 2016 · On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle Full view - 1859. ... Hero-Worship, and the Heroic of History delivered in 1840 and published in 1841. Past and Present (1843), and Latter Day Pamphlets (1850) present his economic and industrial theories. With The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell (1845), The Life of John Sterling (1851), and History of Frederick II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (1858-1865) he returned to biography. ...
On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history by Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881; Goldberg, Michael K. (Michael Kenneth); Brattin, Joel J., 1956-; Engel, Mark. Publication date 1993 Topics Heroes, Hero worship Publisher Berkeley : University of California Press Collection americana Book from the collections of Harvard University Language English.
