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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Coventry Patmore, and Alfred Tennyson on Napoleon III: The Hero-Poet and Carlylean Heroics.

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20061222
Author:Woodworth, Elizabeth

 
   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) 
 
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