Essays | Francis Bacon

Author

- 1561-1626

- Enters Cambridge at 12 yrs in 1573

- Left in 1575 to study law

- At 16, goes on a tour of Europe with British ambassador’s entourage

- Elected to Parliament in 1584; reelected a number of times

- Knighted under James I in 1603; Solicitor General (1607); Attorney General (1613)

- 1621, accused of misconduct and kicked out of Parliament

- In 1626, while conducting an experiment to determine whether stuffing a chicken with snow would prevent it from spoiling, he contracted a chill that developed into bronchitis, from which he died in 1626

Essays

- Between 1597 and 1625, published 3 collections of 58 essays

- Introduces the essay form to England [WE CAN THANK HIM FOR ESSAY EXAMS!]