This is the first extensive one-volume selection of Bacon's English writings in over 90 years. The latest addition to The Oxford Authors series, it includes all the major literary writings on which his reputation rests--the Advancement of Learning, the Essays (in their first and last versions), and the New Atlantis. It also includes sixteen other works not reprinted for over a century, which show Bacon's remarkable all-round abilities in politics, law, theology, and poetry. The selections are annotated in more detail than in any other edition, with particular emphasis on explaining Bacon's language.
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"Excellent....Certain to replace the Modern Library collection...as the standard anthology....Vickers has gone far beyond the call the normal compilatory duty for such a volume....This exemplary one-volume Bacon has to be judge a 'must' for academic libraries; highly recommended for larger public libraries."--Choice
"This is an ideal book for independent readers to acquaint themselves with Bacon, wise, and, in its terms, complete."--Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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About the Editor: Brian Vickers is Professor of English Literature and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies at Eidgen�ssische Technische Hochschule, Zurich.
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