Francis Bacon The Major Works

by Bacon, Francis; Vickers, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780192840813
• ISBN10: 0192840819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing--the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not otherwise available--that reveals the essence of his work and thinking. Francis Bacon held some of the highest public offices in the land and in his spare time studied natural philosophy and a wide variety of other subjects. His systematic classification of all branches of knowledge became the basis for all later constructions, and his Essays are unsurpassed in their observations on society and human behavior. This extensive anthology includes the major English literary works on which his reputation rests: the Advancement of Learning, the Essays (1625, as well as the earliest version of 1597), and the posthumously published Utopian fable the New Atlantis (1626). In addition it reprints other works which illustrate Bacon's abilities in politics, law, theology, and poetry. A special feature of the edition is its extensive annotation which identifies Bacon's sources and allusions, and elucidates his vocabulary

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
Chronology	xlv
Note on the Text	xlix
An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England	1	(19)
Letter to Lord Burghley	20	(2)
Of Tribute; or, giving that which is due	22	(30)
A Device for the Gray's Inn Revels	52	(9)
Of Love and Self-Love	61	(8)
Advice to the Earl of Rutland on his travels	69	(12)
Essays (1597), Religious Meditations, Of the Colours of Good and Evil	81	(21)
Advice to Fulke Greville on his studies	102	(5)
A Confession of Faith	107	(6)
Two Prayers	113	(1)
A Letter and Discourse to Sir Henry Savile touching helps for the intellectual powers	114	(6)
The Advancement of Learning	120	(180)
Essays (1612)	300	(4)
The Charge touching duels	304	(10)
The Charge against Somerset for poisoning Overbury	314	(12)
Letter to King James I, March 1621	326	(2)
Letter to Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1621	328	(4)
Poems and Psalms	332	(9)
Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625)	341	(116)
Of Truth	341	(2)
Of Death	343	(1)
Of Unit in Religion	344	(3)
Of Revenge	347	(1)
Of Adversity	348	(1)
Of Simulation and Dissimulation	349	(2)
Of Parents and Children	351	(2)
Of Marriage and Single Life	353	(1)
Of Envy	354	(3)
Of Love	357	(2)
Of Great Place	359	(2)
Of Boldness	361	(2)
Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature	363	(1)
Of Nobility	364	(2)
Of Seditions and troubles	366	(5)
Of Atheism	371	(2)
Of Superstition	373	(1)
Of Travel	374	(2)
Of Empire	376	(3)
Of Counsel	379	(4)
Of Delays	383	(1)
Of Cunning	383	(3)
Of Wisdom for a Man's Self	386	(1)
Of Innovations	387	(1)
Of Dispatch	388	(1)
Of Seeming Wise	389	(1)
Of Friendship	390	(6)
Of Expense	396	(1)
Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates	397	(6)
Of Regiment of Health	403	(2)
Of Suspicion	405	(1)
Of Discourse	406	(1)
Of Plantations	407	(2)
Of Riches	409	(3)
Of Prophecies	412	(2)
Of Ambition	414	(2)
Of Masques and Triumphs	416	(1)
Of Nature in Men	417	(1)
Of Custom and Education	418	(2)
Of Fortune	420	(1)
Of Usury	421	(3)
Of Youth and Age	424	(1)
Of Beauty	425	(1)
Of Deformity	426	(1)
Of Building	427	(3)
Of Gardens	430	(5)
Of Negotiating	435	(1)
Of Followers and Friends	436	(1)
Of Suitors	437	(2)
Of Studies	439	(1)
Of Faction	440	(1)
Of Ceremonies and Respects	441	(1)
Of Praise	442	(1)
Of Vain-Glory	443	(2)
Of Honour and Reputation	445	(1)
Of Judicature	446	(3)
Of Anger	449	(2)
Of Vicissitude of Things	451	(3)
A Fragment of an Essay on Fame	454	(3)
New Atlantis	457	(34)
Abbreviations	491	(2)
Notes	493	(310)
Further Reading	803	(6)
Index	809