An Appreciation Of Francis Bacon From: The Virginia Quarterly Review | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright University of Virginia Autumn 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

DISCUSSIONS OF RECENT BOOKS AN APPRECIATION OF FRANCIS BACON

By JOHN PORTMAN

Francis Bacon. By Perez Zagorin. Princeton. $29.95

In the sumptuously appointed Master's Lodge of Trinity College, Cambridge University hang adjacent to one another portraits of Francis Bacon and Elizabeth I. This proximity would have caused some pain to Bacon, one of Trinity's most illustrious graduates. For it was the fabled British monarch Elizabeth who in large part caused Bacon the series of deep disappointments around which his life took shape. It was also she who unknowingly caused him to plumb the darker ...

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