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The works of the English author Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) are in large part inquiries into religion, morality, science, and human error. A doctor and scholar, he is chiefly famed for Religio medic...
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Sir Thomas Browne, physician, member of the Royal College of Physicians, and writer of extraordinary prose, was, to borrow William Butler Yeats's phrase, a marker of things "past, or passing, or to co...
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In the following essay, Stapleton offers an evaluation of Browne's major prose works.
Sir Thomas Browne is in one way the most original prose writer of the seventeenth century; not simply for t...
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In the following essay, Wise provides a brief overview of Browne's ideas concerning the nature of divinity in the context of critical reaction from Alexander Ross and Kenelm Digby.
Why should w...
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In the following essay, Breiner contends that Browne consistently uses metaphors to convey the principles and ideas contained in his works, and that there is a commonality in the images he uses in mos...
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In the following essay, Caldwell observes that the Religio Medici derives its sense of unity from its fine melding of the personal and the eccentric, in terms of Browne's thoughts and ideas.
Br...
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In the following essay, Warnke refutes Stanley Fish's critique of Browne's work, stressing that a common religious background is not a necessity when trying to appreciate the artistic or...
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In the following essay, Ellrodt discusses Browne's conception of time in his works.
Sir Thomas Browne's conception of time, though often clothed in biblical imagery, is largely derived f...
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Critical Essay by Laurence Stapleton
