Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire and died on 28 December 1859 at Kensington, London. He was at once a poet, essayist, parliamentarian, colonial administrator, historian, reviewer, and one of the most commanding prose stylists in nineteenth-century English. To modern readers his name often summons the grand certainty of Victorian “Whig history,” the tendency to…
“The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.”
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Folk & Ballad Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
Thomas Campbell was born on the twenty-seventh of July, 1777, in a house on Glasgow's High Street that has long since vanished beneath the changing face of the city. He was the youngest of eleven children born to Alexander Campbell, a merchant who had made and then lost a fortune trading with Virginia before the American war severed his commercial lifeline, and Margaret Campbell, whose family, like her husband's, tra…
“Now Barabbas was a publisher.”
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Folk & Ballad Poets, Irish Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Longing
