Sir Thomas Browne is one of the supreme stylists of the English
language: a coiner of words and spinner of phrases of a near
Shakespearean fecundity; the wielder of a weird and wonderful
erudition; an inquiring spirit in the mold of Montaigne.
Browne was an inspiration to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
Thomas De Quincy, as well as to W.G. Sebald, and his unique
voice is both quirky and sonorous, an echo chamber that is full
of enchantment. This new edition of Browne’s two most enduring
and beloved works, Religio Medici, in which he weighs
and ponders the relation between his medical profession
and his profession of the Christian faith, and Urne-Burial, an
exquisite meditation on mortality, has been put together by
the distinguished Renaissance Scholar and bestselling author
of Will in the World, Stephen Greenblatt, and Ramie Targoff.
It includes an extensive introduction and annotations that will
help readers find their way into the extraordinary world of Sir
Thomas Browne.