Thomas Browne - Selected WritingsPaperback
Thomas Browne - Selected WritingsPaperback This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne…
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Thomas Browne - Selected WritingsPaperback
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682). Sebald, Browne's distinct style and the musicality of his phrasing have long been seen as a pinnacle of early modern prose. Accompanied by full scholarly apparatus, the edition demonstrates the breadth of the author of some of the most brilliant and delirious prose in English Literature.Lauded by writers ranging from Coleridge to Virginia Woolf, from Borges to W.G.
His writings include the hauntingly meditative Urn-Burial, and the elaborate The Garden of Cyrus, a work that borders on a madness of infinite pattern. However, it is Browne's range of subject matter that makes him truly distinct. Religio Medici, probably Browne's most famous work, is at once autobiography, intricate