Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Categories: History, Literature & Fiction

Thomas Babington Macaulay's collected essays from the Edinburgh Review, first gathered in 1843. They include his celebrated essays on Milton, Machiavelli, Bacon, Lord Clive, Warren Hastings, Frederick the Great, Hampden, Sir William Temple and the elder Pitt, combining literary criticism, biography and Whig political history.

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• Winston Churchill: “Not less than in his History, I revelled in his Essays.”