Showing contemporary opinion of Francis Bacon as Author, Statesman, Upright Judge, Philosopher and POET Manes Verulamiani (Shades of Verulam) 32 Elegies written on the Death of Francis Bacon by his Colleagues of Cambridge and Oxford. 1626 Published in Latin by Bacon’s Chaplain, William Rawley 1626 Transcribed into English Verse 1927 by Willard Parker, President, Bacon Society of America * Electronically typed and edited by Juan Schoch (
[email protected]) for educational research purposes. Join us at http://eeng.net and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baconslist Please do not remove this notice. Published by BACON SOCIETY OF AMERICA 119 E. 19th St., New York City Price 50 cents Reprinted from American Baconiana No. 5, November 1927 Copyright 1927 by Willard Parker MANES VERULAMIANI (SHADES OF VERULAM) Interpreted in English Verse by WILLARD PARKER This is the title given collectively to thirty‐two Latin elegies written by twenty‐seven of Bacon’s University contemporaries on the occasion of his passing away in April, 1626. They were collected by William Rawley, D. D., Bacon’s first and last chaplain, and published by John Haviland, London, the same year. They were translated into German by Edwin Bormann and Harvard University, in 1903, and again by William A. Sutton, S. J., and were published in the Tercentenary number of Baconiana, London, April, 1926. But so far as I am aware, no effort has heretofore been made to reproduce these remarkable poems in verse, thus preserving in part at least the musical rhythm of the Latin originals. This I have endeavored to accomplish and I am glad to give all credit to the four distinguished and scholarly translators—two German and two English—who have preceded me, and to whose renderings I have referred with great freedom in formulating my own.