Contents:

• Francis Bacon – A short Biographical Sketch
• The Temperament, Character and Personality of Bacon
• The Works of Bacon
• Bacon’s Philosophy
• Bacon’s Essays
• Bacons’s Literature Style
• The Development of English Prose
• Bacons Essays Text notes and Explanations Summaries and Critical Appreciations
• of Truth
• of marriage
• of Revenge
• of love
• of Gardens
• of superstition
• of followers and friends
• of Envy
• Bacon in his essays is an impressive though hardly an endearing character Discuss
• Discuss the historical and literary importance of the Essays of Bacon
• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and dome of to be chewed and digested. To which of these three classes of books would you assign bacons essays and why?