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A finely bound copy of this collected essays by Lord Macaulay, featuring the popular collection of narrative poems ‘Lays of Ancient Rome’ in a lovely binding. A new impression of this work. Selected work of Thomas Babington
Macaulay, featuring critical and historical essays contributed to ‘The Edinburgh Review’ and his noted collection of poems ‘Lays of Ancient Rome’, originally published in 1842. The essays discuss authors such as Milton and Machiavelli, Boswell’s biographical work of Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole among others, and historical events such as Hallam’s constitutional history, war of the succession in Spain, and Gladstone on Church and State. ‘Lays of Ancient Rome is comprised of a selection of narrative poems, four of which narrate heroic episodes from early Roman history, dealing with dramatic and tragic events. Ivry and The Armada were inspired by more recent history. Each poem is introduced with a short description of the legends they were inspired from. With a preface by the author.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay; 25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster-
General between 1846 and 1848. Macaulay’s The History of England, which expressed his contention of the
superiority of the Western European culture and of the inevitability of its socio-political progress, is a seminal example of Whig history that remains commended for its prose style. As a young man he composed the ballads Ivry and The Armada, which he later included as part of Lays of Ancient Rome, a series of very popular poems about heroic episodes in Roman history which he began composing in India and continued in Rome, finally publishing in 1842. The most famous of them, Horatius, concerns the heroism of Horatius Cocles. His essays, originally published in the Edinburgh Review, were collected as Critical and Historical Essays in 1843.