The Major WorksThis authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available - togive the essence of his work and thinking.Although he had a distinguished career as a lawyer and statesman, Francis Bacon's lifelong goal was to improve and extend human knowledge. In The Advancement of Learning (1605) he made a brilliant critique of the deficiencies of previous systems of thought and proposed improvements to knowledge inevery area of human life. He conceived the Essays (1597, much enlarged in 1625) as a study of the formative influences on human behaviour, psychological and social. In The New Atlantis (1626) he outlined his plan for a scientific research institute in the form of a Utopian fable. In addition tothese major English works this edition includes 'Of Tribute', an important early work here printed complete for the first time, and a revealing selection of his legal and political writings, together with his poetry.A special feature of the edition is its extensive annotation which identifies Bacon's sources and allusions, and glosses his vocabulary. |
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Contents
Introduction | xv |
Chronology | xlv |
An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church | 1 |
Letter to Lord Burghley | 20 |
A Device for the Grays Inn Revels | 52 |
Of Love and SelfLove | 61 |
Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his travels | 69 |
Essays 1597 Religious Meditations Of the Colours of Good | 81 |
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates | 397 |
Of Regiment of Health | 403 |
Of Suspicion | 405 |
Of Discourse | 406 |
Of Plantations | 407 |
Of Riches | 409 |
Of Prophecies | 412 |
Of Ambition | 414 |
Advice to Fulke Greville on his studies | 102 |
Two Prayers | 113 |
The Advancement of Learning | 120 |
Essays 1612 | 300 |
The Charge against Somerset for poisoning Overbury | 314 |
Letter to King James I March 1621 | 326 |
Poems and Psalms | 332 |
Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral 1625 | 341 |
Of Simulation and Dissimulation | 349 |
Of Parents and Children | 351 |
Of Marriage and Single Life | 353 |
Of Envy | 354 |
Of Love | 357 |
Of Great Place | 359 |
Of Boldness | 361 |
Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature | 363 |
Of Nobility | 364 |
Of Seditions and Troubles | 366 |
Of Atheism | 371 |
Of Superstition | 373 |
Of Travel | 374 |
Of Empire | 376 |
Of Counsel | 379 |
Of Delays | 383 |
Of Wisdom for a Mans Self | 386 |
Of Innovations | 387 |
Of Dispatch | 388 |
Of Seeming Wise | 389 |
Of Friendship | 390 |
Of Expense | 396 |
Of Masques and Triumphs | 416 |
Of Nature in Men | 417 |
Of Custom and Education | 418 |
Of Fortune | 420 |
Of Usury | 421 |
Of Youth and Age | 424 |
Of Beauty | 425 |
Of Deformity | 426 |
Of Building | 427 |
Of Gardens | 430 |
Of Negotiating | 435 |
Of Followers and Friends | 436 |
Of Suitors | 437 |
Of Studies | 439 |
Of Faction | 440 |
Of Ceremonies and Respects | 441 |
Of Praise | 442 |
Of VainGlory | 443 |
Of Honour and Reputation | 445 |
Of Judicature | 446 |
Of Anger | 449 |
Of Vicissitude of Things | 451 |
A Fragment of an Essay on Fame | 454 |
New Atlantis | 457 |
Abbreviations | 491 |
Notes | 493 |
Further Reading | 803 |
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| Title | The Major Works Intelex Past Masters Oxford world's classics, ISSN 2755-4058 |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editor | Brian Vickers |
| Contributor | Brian Vickers |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0192840819, 9780192840813 |
| Length | 813 pages |
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