Franks Bacon:
His masterpiece, The Advancement of Leaning is a great tract on education. According to Bacon, man’s understanding consists of three parts: A. history to man’s memory; B. poetry to imagination and creation; C. and philosophy to man’s reason.
Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness as well as powerfulness. In his essay Of studies, Bacon said:” some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. The book of studies analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character.
John Donne:
The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17thcentury writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. Through John Donne’s poems were not well accepted in his life time, the early 20the century saw a renewed interest in him and other metaphysical poets. It is no doubt that John Donne is the leading figure of the “metaphysical school.” His great poem works are Sermons which are both rich and imaginative.
John Milton:
In 1671 witnessed Milton’s last important work Samson Agonists, the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model. Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: A the early poetic works; B the middle prose pamphlets; C the last great poem. The freedom of the will is the keystone of Milton’s creek, and Paradise lost is Milton’s masterpiece, it is a long epic divided into 12 books. The original story is taken from the Bible.
Christopher Marlow:
As the most genius of the “university wits”, Marlow composed of six plays within his short lifetime span, among them the most outstanding are: Tamburlaine. Dr. Faustus, The Jew of Malta Edward 2.
Tamburlaine is a play about an ambitious and pitiless Tartar conqueror in the 14the century who rose from a shepherd to an overpowering king. On the other hand, Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. As my viewpoint, both DR. Faustus and Tamburlaine are the heroes who well express the spirit nature of Renaissance time. If you would like to know more about Renaissance, I strongly recommend you to buy the aforementioned writings from the store which Wholesale those books and then you will find that how those two figures share the common spirit, just like a black laser pointer and a blue beam laser pen, with different appearance,they emits the same 532nm laser pointer beam. Aside from crating typical renaissance hero, Marlowe ‘s second achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and make it the principal of English drama. It is no wonder that the readers respected named Marlow as the pioneer of English drama. There is another strange phenomenon I have to mention for: it is possible that you used to enter the ambitious inner side of Marlow-like Renaissance heroes, however, it is Marlow a perfect humanist enthusiasm also have an extreme opposite face: soft and lingering, you can sense this style from the short poem” the passionate shepherd to His love” , written by Marlow, it is considered to be one of the most elegant and beautiful lyrics in English literature.
