Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a Whig politician and an historian, famous for his History of England, who came to fame through the immediate success of the critical and biographical essays which he was already contributing in his early twenties to the leading periodicals of the day. This 1959 study, G. R. Potter surveys Macaulay's life and career, arguing that 'only Gibbon has surpassed him in security of reputation and certainty of immortality'. A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a Whig politician and an historian, famous for his History of England, who came to fame through the immediate success of the critical and biographical essays which he was already contributing in his early twenties to the leading periodicals of the day. This 1959 study, G. R. Potter surveys Macaulay's life and career, arguing that 'only Gibbon has surpassed him in security of reputation and certainty of immortality'. A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.
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