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Thomas Browne - 21st-Century Oxford Authors (Hardcover)
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Thomas Browne - 21st-Century Oxford Authors (Hardcover)
Series: 21st-Century Oxford Authors
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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). 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. Sebald, Browne's distinct style and the
musicality of his phrasing have long been seen as a pinnacle of
early modern prose. However, it is Browne's range of subject matter
that makes him truly distinct. 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. Religio Medici,
probably Browne's most famous work, is at once autobiography,
intricate religious-scientific paradox, and a monument of tolerance
in the era of the English civil war. This volume also includes his
Pseudodoxia Epidemica, an encyclopaedia of error which contains
within its vast remit the entire intellectual landscape of the
seventeenth centuryits science, its natural history, its painting,
its history, its geography and its biblical oddities. The volume
enables students to experience the ways in which Browne brings his
lucid, baroque and stylish prose to bear across this range of
diverse material, together with a carefully poised wit. This volume
contains almost all of the author's work that was published in his
lifetime, as well as a selection of writings published after his
death. Explanatory notes and commentary are included, to enhance
the study, understanding, and enjoyment of these works, and the
edition includes an Introduction to the life and works of Browne.
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