On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Thomas Carlyle

417 pages first pub 1897 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction history reflective slow-paced
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From its first pages the book recognizes the intimate connections between heroism and myth. Beginning with the legends of Odin, lord of the Nordic gods, Carlyle describes major forms that heroism can take: in god, poet, warrior, priest, prophet, a...

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