On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History

"How great he was! He made history a song for the first time in our language. He was our English Tacitus." Oscar Wilde "A definitive text ... a crucial standard for further study of Carlyle." David Nordloh, Indiana University "The publication of the first scholarly and fully annotated edition of "On Heroes is a major intellectual event." J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine