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Article: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Patmore, and Alfred Tennyson on Napoleon III: The Hero-Poet and Carlylean Heroics.
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- Victorian Poetry
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- December 22, 2006
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The Hero can be Poet, Prophet, King, Priest or what you will,
According to the world he finds himself born into. I confess, I
have no notion of a truly great man that could not be all sorts of
men. The Poet who could merely sit on a chair, and compose stanzas,
would never make a stanza worth much. He could not sing the Heroic
Warrior, unless he himself were at least a Heroic warrior too. I
fancy there is in him the Politician, the Thinker, Legislator,
Philosopher;--in one or the other degree, he could have been, he is
all these. (1)
Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
Like the Hero-Poet that Carlyle ...
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