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Dante (Hardcover)
Richard William Church
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R1,318
Discovery Miles 13 180
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Spenser (Hardcover)
Richard William Church
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R1,091
Discovery Miles 10 910
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Dante - An Essay
Richard William Church
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R886
Discovery Miles 8 860
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Bacon (Hardcover)
Richard William Church
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R1,152
Discovery Miles 11 520
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Bacon
Richard William Church
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R481
Discovery Miles 4 810
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Bacon (Paperback)
Richard William Church
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R790
Discovery Miles 7 900
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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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Spenser (Paperback)
Richard William Church
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R672
Discovery Miles 6 720
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Edmund Spenser (1552-99) has been described as one of the greatest
English poets, and is best known for The Faerie Queene, which he
composed in celebration of the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1879,
this biography by R. W. Church (1815-90), Dean of St Paul's,
recounts Spenser's life and work, hailing him as a genius who
continued the Chaucerian tradition of reflecting the deepest human
passions through verse. Beginning with an account of his early life
and his time as a Cambridge scholar, Church moves on to explore
Spenser's career as secretary to Lord Grey of Wilton, the then Lord
Deputy of Ireland. He concludes with a detailed analysis of The
Faerie Queene, explaining its significance as a work of moral
philosophy, and one that represented a cornerstone of English
literary history.
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