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The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
religio medici, hydriotaphia, the garden of cyrus, christian morals, a letter to a friend,
with selections from pseudodoxia epidemica, miscellany tracts, and from ms notebooks and letters.
Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Variants by Norman J. Endicott
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.
The norton library seventeenth-century series presents the major and significant minor texts in English of the seventeenth century...
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Fülszöveg
LITERATURE
The Prose of Sir Thomas Browne
religio medici, hydriotaphia, the garden of cyrus, christian morals, a letter to a friend,
with selections from pseudodoxia epidemica, miscellany tracts, and from ms notebooks and letters.
Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Variants by Norman J. Endicott
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.
The norton library seventeenth-century series presents the major and significant minor texts in English of the seventeenth century in authoritative and inexpensive editions. Prepared by distinguished American and Canadian scholars, these newly edited texts incorporate the latest textual and critical discoveries, and meet the highest standards of both scholarship and readability.
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