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Bacon As An Essayist

Bacon as an Essayist

Francis Bacon is great figure in history of essayists. A brief notes an account of Sir Francis Bacon.

• Introduction
• Three Edition of Bacon’s Essays
• Dispersed Meditation
• Bacon and Montaigne
• Impersonal and Objective
• Wide range of Topics
• Themes of Bacon’s Essays
• Bacon’s style

          -Sentence structure

         ~ Use of Antithesis

         ~An Aphoristic/ Epigrammatic

•      Conclusion
  

 Introduction

 Sir Francis Bacon is the first great English Essayist renowned for intellectual powers and wisdom, was born on January 22 in 1561 in London. He was Philosopher, Statesman, Jurist and Renaissance Man. He was a very learned man whose genius embraced almost all the subjects of his day.

Bacon, the Father of English Essay, who enjoys a glorious reputation. He remains for the sheer mass and weight of genius. His essays are not personal essays like Essays of Lamb. His essays introduce a new form of composition into English Literature. 

“Some books are to be tasted, Others to be swallowed And some few to be chewed and digested."

Francis Bacon.

Three Edition of Bacon’s Essays

Bacon sponsored this new literary form in English with the publication of his Ten Essays in 1597. It grew to Thirty-eight in the edition of 1612. The number reached Fifty-eight in the final issue of 1625. Bacon’s essays are divided into two parts:

Early Essays: Highly intellectual essays,  

Later Essays: Mature & Highly Philosophical essays.

He was good observer and these are the results of his direct observations of man and matters.

Dispersed Meditations

Bacon’s essays were dispersed meditations and receptacle for detached thoughts. That’s why his essays are called counsels civil and moral.

Bacon and Montaigne

Bacon borrowed the form of essay from Montaigne, who appeals to the heart but Bacon to the head.

Impersonal and Objective

Bacon’s essays are capsules of impersonal wisdom. They are objective and logically constructed. On this basis Pope’s statement is appreciated.

Wide range of Topic   

In Bacon’s essays, we can find the variety of topics some of which include: Truth, Death, Love, Studies, Envy, Travel etc.

Theme of his essays

Theme also we can see in variety. The tone of his essays is dictatorial He wrote,

“ I have taken all knowledge to be my province.”

Bacon’s style

Bacon’s style is unique and lucid. His sentences are too much readable. He avoids artificial things. There is no harshness or hardness in his essays. Practical wisdom & Own experiences, Deep study and Observation, Meditation, we can find in his essays.

-sentence structure

    Use of antithesis

    An aphoristic/ epigrammatic

Conclusion

In nut shell, we can say that yes, definitely Bacon is truly an essayist in English Literature. No essayist has come upto the level of Bacon, then or now, in wisdom and experience and terse expression.