Great Englishmen of the Sixteenth Century: Philip Sidney, Thomas More, Walter Ralegh, Edmund Spenser, Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare
Author: Sidney Lee
Publisher: SEVERUS Verlag
Published: 2012-10
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 3863473248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas More, Philip Sidney, Walter Ralegh, Edmund Spencer, Francis Bacon and William Shakespeare were chosen to represent the atmosphere of the whole sixteenth century in England. Each of these men influenced the following generation and this opus describes accuratly an epoche of intellectual uprising which accompanied the ascendency of the British Empire. Based on his great knowledge of the epoche Sidney Lee, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and several English classics, gives a profound view of six great men of the English Renaissance and their impact on British history.
