This introduction to the life and works of Francis Bacon
(1561-1626) was published in the first series of English Men of
Letters in 1884. The author, R. W. Church (1815-90), who also wrote
on Spenser for this series, begins forcefully: 'The life of Francis
Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read. It is the life
of a man endowed with as rare a combination of noble gifts as ever
was bestowed on a human intellect ... And yet it was not only an
unhappy life; it was a poor life.' Church, while paying the highest
tribute to Bacon's intellectual achievements in so many different
fields, argues that 'there was in Bacon's 'self' a deep and fatal
flaw. He was a pleaser of men.' He believed that this work should
correct the adulatory stance adopted by earlier biographers, and
reveal the whole, imperfect man.
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