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Article: Arts of power.
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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For over thirty years Brian Vickers has been a leading figure in Baconian scholarship--the genuine kind, not the bogus kind connected with the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. His Oxford Authors volume of 1996, bringing together Bacon's major English works, is now complemented by an edition of The History of the Reign of King Henry VII, a work he did not then include.(1) It is not the first modern edition--indeed, one by Jerry Weinberger appeared from Cornell as recently as 1996; but Vickers, while properly grateful for Weinberger's scrupulous analysis of Bacon's treatment of his narrative sources, is also properly censorious about his misguided view of Bacon as a ...
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...Henry Bacon 1866-1924, American architect, b. Watseka, Ill. He began his professional career with the firm of McKim, Mead, and White ...
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