[betty boop]

Perhaps, Cicero! I'm just beginning this investigation into Bacon (preparing for the sequel to A-G's and my last), and I'm gathering sources at this point. As mentioned, these attributions to Bacon are James Phinney Baxter's (1915).

To be sure I'll look into it further. Thank you so much for the reference to Brian Vickers as a good source on the Baconian style. And thanks for writing!

[Cicero]

Vickers' book is "Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose." He also edited Bacon for The Oxford Authors, which is a kind of students' edition.

Oxford has been putting out a new edition. I haven't kept up with it, but I seem to have Volume VI on my shelf, which was sent to me for review. It's a very nice piece of work, Latin and English on facing pages and extensive notes and bibliography. You might want to use it as the new standard edition, at least as far as it's come out.

[beckett]

I'm with Cicero on the Man from Stratford. Allow me at least to suggest that you carefully research the controversy before offering an opinion, and Harold Bloom's work is indispensable in this regard.

Edward de Vere (The Earl of Oxford), Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, all have been suggested as the true Bard of Avon. And all have very compelling reasons against them.

When Occam's Razor is applied, the Man from Stratford comes out way ahead.