Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
Thomas Babington Macaulay made his name with the long essays he wrote for the Edinburgh Review, and this second volume of his Critical and Historical Essays gathers some of the best known. It opens with his defense of Machiavelli and goes on to Ranke's history of the popes, the War of the Spanish Succession, Frederick the Great, Southey's Colloquies, the civil disabilities of the Jews, Gladstone on church and state, and long studies of Francis Bacon, John Bunyan, Leigh Hunt, Addison, Samuel Johnson, Madame d'Arblay and Moore's life of Byron, ending with his demolition of the poet Robert Montgomery. Confident, vivid and quotable, the essays shaped the Victorian picture of English history and letters. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first essay is free.
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