Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historical, macrocosm...ic triumph. Whereas the former--the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers--prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nation...s. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At Sestos, Hero dwelt; Hero the faire, Whom young Apollo, courted for her haire,... And offred as a dower his burning throne, Where she should sit for men to gaze upon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled, And seeming lavish, sav'de her maydenhead.... Ne're king more sought to keepe his diademe; Than Hero this inestimable gemme.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He's not out seeing a sight but the rock... crystal thing to see--the startling El Greco brimming with inner light--that covets nothing that it has let go. This then you may know as the hero.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not like some things, and the hero doesn't; deviating head-stones... and uncertainty; going where one does not wish to go;suffering and not saying so;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Th...en take a good look at the tree he shook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems... To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »