Critical and Historical Essays
Macaulay's long review essays for the Edinburgh Review, the model for the form as it is still written.
Macaulay’s essays for the Edinburgh Review, on Milton, Bacon, Clive, Warren Hastings and others. They are long, confident, immensely readable pieces that established the review essay as a form. He was dismissive of them himself; they outlived most of what he valued more.
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Timothy Garton Ash
This Everyman edition is two volumes of his essays from The Edinburgh Review, which, as you know, was The New York Review of Books of its time, or maybe I should turn that the other way round. It had long critical review essays of the kind people are still writing. Although Macaulay was a teeny bit dismissive of his own work in the genre they are actually models of their kind, full of wonderful insight.
Interview · April 2011
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