Bacon and Shakespeare in the Sonnets

Excerpt from Bacon and Shakespeare in the Sonnets

The writer of the "Advertisement of the American Publishers" of the Works of Francis Bacon, as the highest eulogy that could be pronounced upon the merits of the illustrious author, writes: -

"In many respects Bacon resembles his immortal contemporary, Shakespeare. Like Shakespeare, he enjoyed the most splendid reputation for genius and ability in his lifetime; like him, he was comparatively undervalued and neglected for ages after his death; and like him, in the present refined and severely scrutinizing era, he has been tried in the hottest furnace of criticism, and has come forth pure gold, whose weight, solidity, and brilliancy can never hereafter be for a moment doubted. It is said of Shakespeare that his fertile genius exhausted the whole world of nature. As a poet, he has undoubtedly done this; and Lord Bacon, as a philosopher, has done the same."

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