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Article: An Appreciation Of Francis Bacon
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- The Virginia Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1998
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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 side of the human condition and advance learning so decisively as to justify yet another critical ...