The frenzy of renown

Analysizes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, P.T. Barnum, et al.

First sentence: "What is honor?" asked Falstaff and answered "a word."

Year

1986

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Editions

2

Pages

674

ISBN

9780195051780

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