Which of the following men is credited as the first English essayist? Francis Bacon Mark Twain Joseph Addison Richard Steele

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Francis Bacon. He was in the Renaissance period. Bacon wrote essays about the scientific method.

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The correct answer is Francis Bacon, as he is credited as the first English essayist.

Francis Bacon was a famous English philosopher, politician, lawyer and writer, father of philosophical and scientific empiricism.

He developed in his De dignitate et augmentis scientiarumn (From the dignification and progress of science) an empirical theory of knowledge and specified the rules of experimental scientific method in his Novum organum, which made him one of the pioneers of modern scientific thought. He also introduced the essay genre in England.

As a writer, he is responsible for the creation of the essay genre in English, with his Essays on Morals and Politics in 1597.