Thomas 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.