ENG 3340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Word Works, Death Line, Revised Version
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Bacon"s essays (cid:498)of love(cid:499) and (cid:498)of studies(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:884) versions(cid:524) Elegies: (cid:498)on my first daughter(cid:499) and (cid:498)on my first son(cid:499) There are ways in which he is synical and idealistic. He opens the essay from an instrumentalist perspective. Marriage is a distraction from achieving great things. Expert known a field, you can do a specific thing (job model) Riding good for the head: study math to teach you to concentrate, if you cant judge things study the ancient philosophers. Found the poetry of his friend dunn so obscure that people wouldn"t understand it and was self-important, his own worth as a poet. The publishing industry was well-estabished and writers to public their work. He chose the largest biblio (pholio) and the grandeur of the title page, he compiled of all of his work and his plays. Satire: (cid:498)on something that walks somewhere(cid:499) words associating with death dead state (political figure) sentence is the poet talking to us.
