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Notes • Bacon describes poesy (poetry) in respect of matter, (and not words), as, “one of the principal
portions of learning, and is nothing else but feigned history , which may be styled as well in
prose as verse” —Advancement , p.90. So in the play of As You Like It , “The truest poetry is
the most feigning.”
5.3 Key-Words
1. Vinum daemonum : Wine of the devils
5.4 Review Questions
1. Do you see the apology for poetical fiction in the passage of Truth? Discuss.
2. Critically explain Bacon as essay Of Truth
Answers: Self-Assessment
1. (i)(c) (ii)(b) (iii)(c) (iv)(c)
5.5 Further Readings
1. Rai Vikramadity: Bacon Essays, Doaba House.
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