Urn Burial by Browne, Thomas

Urn Burial

Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of...
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Author: Thomas Browne
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Urn Burial by Browne, Thomas

Urn Burial

$26.28

Urn Burial

$26.28
Author: Thomas Browne
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne's associative mind wanders to elephant graveyards, to pre-Christian cremation ceremonies, and finally to the idea of Christian burial. Browne then explores, with a more melancholic meditation, man's struggles with mortality and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in the living world. This edition includes a magisterial discourse on Sir Thomas Browne taken from the first chapter of W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn.

Author: Thomas Browne
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/26/2010
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 6.92h x 4.54w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9780811218924


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/10/2011

About the Author
Browne, Thomas: - Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English Renaissance author and physician. He wrote extensively about medicine, geography, philosophy, and Christian spirituality.Sebald, W. G.: - W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted and Campo Santo.

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