Bacon

di Richard William Church (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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.

• Autore: Richard William Church
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - English Men of Letters
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 240 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 310 gr.
• EAN: 9781108034432

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