Francis Bacon and the SeventeenthCentury Intellectual Discourse
Anthony J. Funari
francis bacon and the seventeenth-century intellectual discourse Copyright © Anthony J. Funari, 2011. All rights reserved. All quotations from John Donne’s poetry come from The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin (New York, NY: Modern Library, 2001). All quotations from John Wilmot’s poetry come from The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. David M. Vieth (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1962). All quotations from Francis Bacon’s Novum Organum come from Novum Organum with Other Parts of The Great Instauration, ed. Peter Urbach and John Gibson (Chicago, IL: Open Court, 1994). First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-0-230-11684-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Funari, Anthony J. Francis Bacon and the seventeenth-century intellectual discourse / by Anthony J. Funari. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0-230–11684–9 1. English poetry—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 2. Nature in literature. 3. Bacon, Francis, 1561–1626—Influence. 4. Donne, John, 1572– 1631—Criticism and interpretation. 5. Marvell, Andrew, 1621–1678—Criticism and interpretation. 6. Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of,