BACON ESSAYS

Bacon’s Essays Edited with Introduction and Notes by F.G. Selby Francis Bacon has been described by Alexander Pope as “the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind”. He wrote much in latin, yet he was capable of varied and beautiful styles in English, and there is a peculiar magnificence and Picturesqueness. His Essays or Counsels, Civill and morall are collections of reflections and generalisations and extracts from previous authors, for the most part, into counsels for the successful conduct of life and the management of men. Many sentences have assumed the character of proverbs such as essays on “Greatness of Kingdoms’, ‘wisdom for a man’s self’, ‘Cunning’, ‘death’, ‘unity’ and ‘gardens’.

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