This anthology, a labor of love spanning six volumes, showcases the diverse talents of Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian and politician. Macaulay's brings together unparalleled essays, offering readers a holistic view of his erudition, historical insights, and literary critiques.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1:
Fragments of a Roman Tale
On the Royal Society of Literature
Scenes from "Athenian Revels"
Criticism on the Principal Italian Writers
Some Account of the Great Lawsuit between the Parishes of St. Dennis and St. George in the Water
A Conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton, Touching the Great Civil War, Set Down by a Gentleman of the Middle Temple
On the Athenian Orators
A Prophetic Account of a Grand National Epic Poem, to be Entitled "The Wellingtoniad," and to be Published A. D. 2824
On Mitford's History of Greece
Milton
Machiavelli
John Dryden
History
Hallam
Volume 2:
Mill on Government
Westminster Reviewer's Defence of Mill
Utilitarian Theory of Government
Southey's Colloquies
Mr. Robert Montgomery
Sadler's Law of Population
John Bunyan
Sadler's Refutation Refuted
Civil Disabilities of the Jews
Moore's Life of Lord Byron
Samuel Johnson
John Hampden
Volume 3:
Burleigh and His Times
Mirabeau
War of the Succession in Spain
Horace Walpole
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham
Sir James Mackintosh
Lord Bacon
Volume 4:
Sir William Temple
Gladstone on Church and State
Lord Clive
Von Ranke
Leigh Hunt
Lord Holland
Volume 5:
Warren Hastings
Frederic the Great
Madame D'Arblay
The Life and Writings of Addison
Barère
Volume 6:
The Earl of Chatham
Francis Atterbury
John Bunyan
Oliver Goldsmith
Samuel Johnson
William Pitt
The West Indies
The London University
Social and Industrial Capacities of Negroes
The Present Administration

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist, on contemporary and historical sociopolitical subjects, and as a reviewer. His The History of England and its literary style has remained an object of praise since its publication, including subsequent to the widespread condemnation of its historical contentions which became popular in the 20th century.