Prose Literature Diary

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Francis Bacon – A Moralist

Bacon is not a true moralist. His morality is a saleable morality. He is a moralist-cum-worldly wise man. Bacon appears…

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Bertrand Russell is one of the greatest masters of English Prose. He revolutionized not only the subject matter but also…

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Bacon challenged the basic beliefs of man e.g. truth, love, friendship, honesty, secrecy and reshaped them. He challenged the most…

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Lytton Strachey, an English biographer, critic and essayist, is best known for his ironic attitude towards the subject of his…

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The biographer Lytton Strachey belonged to the Bloomsbury Group. He inaugurated the new era of biographical writing at the close…

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Bacon was the wisest because of his worldly wisdom, he was brightest owing to his powerful intellect and the art…

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Bacon was, definitely, a worldly wise man. He was the wisest and the meanest of mankind. He was truly of…

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“Gulliver’s Travels” is a great work of social satire. Jonathan Swift’s age was an age of smug complacency. Corruption was…