Religio Medici and Hydiotaphia, or Urne-Buriall

by Thomas Browne

Book Overview

Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English language- a coiner of words and spinner of phrases to rival Shakespeare; the wielder of a weird and wonderful erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne. Browne was an inspiration to the Romantics as well as to W.G. Sebald, and his work is quirky, sonorous, and enchanting. Here this baroque master's two most enduring and admired works, Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall , appear...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590174887
• ISBN13: 9781590174883
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.0"