Pompeii.
Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819. First edition. NCBEL III, 1463. The first book by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), a 13-page poem of 280 stanzas on the popular classical subject, Pompeii and its famous destruction. Like many first books by noted English authors, Pompeii was a prize poem, which Macaulay.....