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Bacon Seeks The Golden Mean Between Popery & Profanity
Francis Bacon was no atheist; he sought to tread the via media of the reformed English church between the two extremes of Popish superstition on the one hand and profane superstition on the other. In his Meditationes Sacrae, in the … Continue reading
New Publication: “Janus of Imagination: Francis Bacon’s Theory of Imagination and the Wisdom of the Ancients”, by David Hurley
A basic version of David Hurley’s Master’s thesis, Janus of Imagination: Francis Bacon’s theory of imagination and the Wisdom of the Ancients is now available on this website in PDF format. The full text of the thesis and the complete bibliography are included. Continue reading
Janus of Imagination: Francis Bacon’s Theory of Imagination and the Wisdom of the Ancients, by D. P. Hurley
In this dissertation I discuss some aspects of Bacon’s philosophical, and prudential “doubleness” in relation to his theory of the imagination, and in relation to the development of his attitude to fable in the years that led up to the publication of De Sapientia Veterum Liber in 1609. Continue reading
Magi Imaginationis: Imagining Alchemists and Magicians in New Atlantis, The Tempest, and The Alchemist, by D. P. Hurley, 1998
In the epilogue to Shakespeare’s Last Plays Frances Yates not only reaffirms her view that Jonson’s The Alchemist and Shakespeare’s The Tempest offer two conflicting representations of the Renaissance magus, but on the pre-proto-penultimate page she introduces the ghostly figure of Bacon and links him with Shakespeare and ‘the Renaissance Hermetic tradition’. She quickly informs us that she is ‘absolutely convinced that the real author of the works of Shakespeare was Shakespeare’ and expands on her absolute conviction with a cut-and-dried full stop – which is somewhat qualified by the first word of the next sentence: ‘Yet…’. Continue reading
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