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

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

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Title	:	Religio Medici & Urne-Buriall
Author	:	Thomas Browne
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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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Thomas Browne is without a doubt one of the best stylists the English language has ever seen. I underlined all throughout and here's a sample from a random page: "I thanks God, amongst those millions of vices O doe inherit and hold from Adam, I have escaped one, and that a mortall enemy to charity, the first and father sine, not only of man, but of the deil: Pride. A vice whose name is comprehended in a Monosyllable, but in its nature circumscribed not with a world." See what I mean?And there

Thomas Browne is without a doubt one of the best stylists the English language has ever seen. I underlined all throughout and here's a sample from a random page: "I thanks God, amongst those millions of vices O doe inherit and hold from Adam, I have escaped one, and that a mortall enemy to charity, the first and father sine, not only of man, but of the deil: Pride. A vice whose name is comprehended in a Monosyllable, but in its nature circumscribed not with a world." See what I mean?And there

Virginia Woolf calls Browne the 'first autobiographer,' the first writer to turn his attention inward and consider his own mysteries. You've probably got to pretend there was no Montaigne to say that, but Browne is very much in the line of Montaigne: curious, wide ranging, intimidatingly learned, funny, humble (with an obverse of enormous self-regard), awake, alert. Reading casts a really broad light into The Rings of Saturn, in which Sebald dwells at length on Browne.

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

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

Browne's writings display a deep curiosity towards the natural world, influenced by the scientific revolution of Baconian enquiry. Browne's literary works are permeated by references to Classical and Biblical sources as well as the idiosyncrasies of his own personality. Although often described as suffering from melancholia, his writings are also characterised by wit and subtle humour, while his