John Milton - An Essay - With Biographical Sketches of Milton and Macaulay - An Epitome of the Views of the Best Known Critics of Milton

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Originally published in 1897, this early works is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Contents include; The function of Latin, Chansons De Geste, The Matter of Britain, Antiquity in Romance, The making of English and the settlement of European Prosody, Middle High German Poetry, The 'Fox, ' The 'Rose, ' and the minor Contributions of France, Icelandic and Provencal, The Literature of the Peninsulas, and Conclusion..... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwor

About the author (2008)

The grouping of Macaulay's essays according to the classification of Cotter Morison in his monograph on Macaulay---as English history, foreign history, literary criticism---has been followed strictly in some editions of his prose. It has been hard to live down the persistent influence of some of Macaulay's essays. His strongly biased remarks (and he was not beyond conscious misstatements) on Addison, Bacon, Byron, Dryden, Walpole, and others made and unmade reputations. Since even his basest opinions were uttered in the purest English prose, Macaulay's reputation as a scholar and a historian flourished. Trained in law, he became a member of Parliament and rose to the peerage in 1857. Although Macaulay held a number of important cabinet posts, the effects of his sweeping educational reform, while in India, are his most enduring contribution to the Whig government.

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