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~ Thomas Browne (Author), Claire Preston (Editor) "Certainly that man were greedy of life, who should desire to lived when all the world were at an end; and he must needs be..." (more)
Key Phrases: Edward Browne, Selected Writings, Old Testament (more...)
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This selection of Sir Thomas Browne's writings presents the full range of his exuberant enthusiasms and his richly textured, allusive language. Browne's discussion on death and resurrection, sneezing, astronomy, ostriches, hieroglyphics, and rainbows are included, as are thematically arranged extracts, annotated texts, and a detailed introduction with a list of further reading.


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Thomas Browne was a physician, philosopher, and the author of Religio Medici and Urn Burial. Claire Preston is a fellow and lecturer in English at Sidney Sussex College.

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  • Paperback: 168 pages
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.; annotated edition edition (May 28, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1857546903
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857546903
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #420,563 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The great literary stylist Browne, September 28, 2006
There are those writers who so beguile us by their reflective musings that we are left by them with a sense of the deeper mystery and wonder of all we know and may be. The reflective imaginative speculations of Thomas Browne( 1605-1682) anthologized here touch upon his medical, antiquarian, scientific and philosophical interests. They give evidence to what writers Coleridge to Virginia Woolf have understand that in terms of literary style , few can match his bold wit, wisdom and questionings. All who know the history of English Literature know that in the 'Oxen in the Sun' parody- history of the Language Joyce writes he includes a Brownean particled metaphorical adventure. Browne traveled far in lands outside and inside, in his own mind and in worlds of knowledge many of which too us are long dated. But his questionings and his reachings out to make new worlds of connections make him like Donne, Borges, and other Kafka himself, an uncanny seeker and finder of truths the Creator hides and reveals within and without us, more than once.
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