BROWNE (Sir Thomas, 1605-1682, Polymath, Author of Varied works in many fields including Science, Medicine, Religion and the Esoteric)

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Browne is widely considered one of the most original writers in the English language. In the 19th century Browne's reputation was revived by the Romantics. Thomas De Quincey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Charles Lamb (who considered himself the rediscoverer of Browne) were all admirers. Carlyle was also influenced by him. The American novelist Herman Melville, heavily influenced by his style, deemed him a "crack'd Archangel", the novelist Joseph Conrad prefaced his 1913 novel Chance with a quotation by Browne and Virginia Woolf wrote two short essays about him,

Item Date:  1645

Stock No:  40270      £2500

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