ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. The lectures, which glorified great men throughout history, were enormously popular.

Detailed explanation-3: -Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men. [ Carlyle, p. 11]

Detailed explanation-4: -For The Hero as Poet he selected Dante and Shakespeare. The lectures represent Carlyle’s idea that all history is the making of great persons, gifted with supreme power of vision or action. According to him, only when persons with heroic temperamentstep forward to lead the masses, true social progress could occur.

Detailed explanation-5: -In modern society general media techniques are used for the eulogizing of heroes. Hero worship may occur in the worship of ancestors and may include the practice of magical rites. Background. Hero worship traditionally takes the form of eulogizing literature, very often poems and sagas.