Macaulay

By: Young, Kenneth

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 1976 study by Kenneth Young succeeds that of G. R. Potter in 1959. Young surveys Macaulay's many-sided achievement not only as an essayist,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582012635
• ISBN13: 9780582012639
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 39 Pages