Religio Medici & Urne-Buriall Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

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Original Title:	Religio medici / Hydriotaphia
ISBN:	1590174887 (ISBN13: 9781590174883)
Edition Language:	English

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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 in a new edition that has been annotated and introduced by the distinguished scholars Ramie Targoff and Stephen Greenblatt (author of the best-selling Will in the World and the National Book Award–winning The Swerve). In Religio Medici Browne mulls over the relation between his medical profession and his profession of the Christian faith, pondering the respective claims of science and religion, questions that are still very much alive today. The discovery of an ancient burial site in an English field prompted Browne to write Urne-Buriall, which is both an early  anthropological examination of different practices of interment and a profound meditation on mortality. Its grave and exquisite music has resounded for generations.

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Title	:	Religio Medici & Urne-Buriall
Author	:	Thomas Browne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	August 7th 2012 by NYRB Classics (first published 1643)
Categories	:	Writing. Essays. Philosophy. Nonfiction. History. Religion

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Blessed be the cracked archangel. Religio Medici, his eloquent and learned treatise of being a Christian and a scientist - full of the deep questions of faith that animate us all to the end. Urne Burial, a writing on the discovery of some urns that is suffused with a poetic brilliance that shines best in the last two or so chapters; not as exhilarating as the long-sentence extravaganzas of Religio Medici, but still with that same brilliance.By loving Browne, I am with Virginia Woolf in that I am

not for nothing did virginia woolf describe thomas browne as "first of the autobiographers" - in "religio medici" he exonerates himself from the "vice" of pride and denies the charge of egotism, but, peering out from the depths of his supreme solipsism, claims to "understand no less then six Languages (...) [to] have not onely seene severall Countries, beheld the nature of their climes, the Choreography of their Provinces, Topography of their Cities, but understand their severall Lawes, Customes

Three and a half centuries old, and handsomely resurrected this autumn by New York Review of Books, Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall are probably the works that have secured Sir Thomas Browne's afterlife. Had the vagaries of time robbed us of them, however, this 17th-century doctor would still have a foothold in our lives - many of his coinages are nowadays commonplace (literary, medical, ambidextrous, hallucination, ingenious, electricity, ascetic, carnivorous...) and if Virginia Woolf is

Two rambling, amazing essays from that spell of the early seventeenth century when the English language was really starting to stretch its legs and realise what it could do. In verse, Shakespeare; in prose, Burton and Browne. And whereas Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is a monster, a sea into which I'll be dipping for years to come, Browne created these slender musings, each the perfect companion for an afternoon excursion. 'Religio Medici' is a curious creature; ostensibly one man's musings on

Possibly the greatest prose stylist the English language can claim also possesses a strong sense of courage, depth of discourse and musical sense of crescendo. What can't this be a five? Perhaps it's fair to suggest that it's only chapter five of Urn Burial that warrants the claim but the work doesn't easily separate into disparate chapters. I have no fair claim to suggest what Browne intended but, presented as such, Urn Burial starts as a piece of scholarship well researched and better intended

Two brilliantly eccentric and intriguing essays by one of the masters of English prose. "Urne-Buriall" especially is one of the half-forgotten gems of English literature--- one of those long walks through a whole world of ideas and arcane bits of the past that make one's life just a bit...uncanny. Sit and let your tongue run over the prose and read "Urne-Buriall" aloud a bit. Then look around and ask yourself Browne's questions--- which of us can ever know how many times and places his remains

I'll be dipping into this one for the rest of my life probably.