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Thomas Babington (or Babbington) Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (October 25 1800 – December 28 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history.
Life
The son of Zachary Macaulay, a British colonial governor and abolitionist, Macaulay was born in Leicestershire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge he wrote much poetry and won several prizes. In 1825 he published a prominent essay on Milton in the Edinburgh Review. In 1826 he was called to the bar, but showed more interest in a political than a legal career.
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Encyclopedia of the Self: Thomas Babbington Macaulay - Biography, links and full text of The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. 1 and Lays of Ancient Rome.
Poets' Corner: Lays of Ancient Rome - Text of the Macaulay poems with an introduction and prefaces to each.
Selected Poetry of Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) - Text of Dies Irae, Epitaph on a Jacobite, Horatius, and The Last Buccaneer, originally from Representative Poetry On-line.
The Lays of Ancient Rome - An essay describing the poems and their subject matter, and encouraging their teaching.
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