Urn Burial

Informationen zum Autor Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English Renaissance author and physician. He wrote extensively about medicine, geography, philosophy, and Christian spirituality. Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Browne
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.12.2012
• EAN: 9780811218924
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-1892-4
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 177 mm x 7 mm
• Series: New Directions Pearls; New Directions Pearls
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies