MACAULAY, Lord.

£275 · Offered by Peter Harrington

Critical and Historical Essays Ninth edition. This elegantly bound collection of critical and historical essays by the British Whig politician, poet, and historian Thomas Babington Macaulay was an immediate success in the English-speaking world.Literary critic George Saintsbury endowed the work with high praise, writing: "On any subject which Macaulay has touched, his survey is unsurpassable for giving a first bird's-eye view, and for creating interest in the matter." The collection is comprised of essays that were originally published for The Edinburgh Review, one of the most influential British magazines of the nineteenth century, and surveys an array of important historical and literary figures, including Milton, Machiavelli, and Walpole. While the author's lucid prose earned him acclaim and recognition, his work was also met with charges of dogmatism and historical inaccuracy.

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