SOURCE: “Remarkable Ingratitude: Bacon, Prometheus, Democritus,” in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter, 1992, pp. 79-90.
In the following essay, Barbour explores the influence of Democritus on Francis Bacon's essay on Prometheus.
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