BaconCambridge University Press, 17 lis 2011 - 240 This introduction to the life and works of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1884. The author, R. W. Church (1815-90), who also wrote on Spenser for this series, begins forcefully: 'The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read. It is the life of a man endowed with as rare a combination of noble gifts as ever was bestowed on a human intellect ... And yet it was not only an unhappy life; it was a poor life.' Church, while paying the highest tribute to Bacon's intellectual achievements in so many different fields, argues that 'there was in Bacon's 'self' a deep and fatal flaw. He was a pleaser of men.' He believed that this work should correct the adulatory stance adopted by earlier biographers, and reveal the whole, imperfect man. |
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EARLY LIFE | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 28 |
CHAPTER III | 58 |
CHAPTER IV | 81 |
CHAPTER V | 100 |
CHAPTER VI | 124 |
PAGE | 156 |
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