Essays are argumentative texts written to explain the author's position about some issue or situation. In terms of history, essays are rather a recent writing form as essays just emerged during the 16th century. Indeed, the firsts essays in English are attributed to Francis Bacon who wrote a set of ten essays a published them as a book between the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century. Additionally, before Francis Bacon jus Michel de Montaigne had written essays; however, as Montaigne was French he wrote essays in French rather than in English. According to this, the person who composed the first writing in English called essays was Francis Bacon.
Francis Bacon who served the post of Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain was an English philosopher and politician. He used to write for the court during his terms as a lawyer and politician. His first work, a collection of essays about politics published in the year 1597. The compilation was later extended and republished in years 1612 and 1625 respectively.
