ISBN Thomas Browne ( Selected Writings ) book English Hardcover

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 century-its 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.