Bacon

ISBN-13: 9781108034432 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str.

Richard William Church

Opis

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."