Jan 7, 2009

Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial | Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial

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Author: Sir Thomas Browne
First Published: 1658
Type of Work: Philosophy
Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Essays, Anthropology
Subjects: England or English people, Seventeenth century, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Greek or Roman times, Great Britain, Rome, Tombs or graves, Cemeteries, Celts, Bronze Age, Coffins

Critical Evaluation:

Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial is one of the great glories of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the greatest essays in English literature. The work is ostensibly a study on some forty or fifty Roman funeral urns that had been recently discovered near Norfolk. The wonderfully associative mind of the author immediately reads philosophical implications out of, and rich analogues into, the urns.

Regarded as one of the finest specimens of baroque prose of the seventeenth century, Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial is also a superb example of...

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Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial | Hydriotaphia, Urn-Burial

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