Subscribe to our newsletter. Even if he did live during one of the most exciting times in history, he is a difficult writer for some modern-day students of literature to understand. One important element to grasp is that Bacon was trained during the great age of rhetoric. When Bacon found himself without a proper job, having been found complicit in a bribery scheme in his position as lord high chancellor, he fell back on his training. He devoted himself to what he declared to be his own true work, writing about philosophy and science.
Enumeration is one of the most common and most reliable rhetorical devices.
Blupete Guide to Francis Bacon includes a detailed timeline of his life, quotes from his works and a look at Elizabethan times. EpistemeLinks, Research Links Navigate through resources about Bacon's life and work. Essays and Glossary Provides the texts of many of the English philosopher's essays and a glossary of the archaic words used in his writing. I'm happy to answer any questions that I can. Sponsored Links New Classical Music Site of LA composer John Mitchell, with song settings of poetry by John Donne, William Blake, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, Edna St. Vincent Millay.