The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne

Download or read book The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne written by Sir Thomas Browne and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1972-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Thomas Browne was one of the greatest English prose stylists--a physician by vocation, a theologian by inclination, and a writer of great elegance and erudition.This edition of his works, with Introduction, Notes, Comments, and Bibliography, includes all Browne's major pieces and selections from his minor papers and letters. The Notes are designed to help the student understand Browne's references, and the Introduction provides an account of his life and an analysis of his baroque style against the background of seventeenth-century literature.