| Urn Burial Contributor(s): Browne, Thomas (Author), Sebald, W. G. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0811218929 ISBN-13: 9780811218924 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 821.4 |
| LCCN: 2010021395 |
| Series: New Directions Pearls |
| Physical Information: 0.29" H x 4.54" W x 6.92" (0.18 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne's associative mind wanders to elephant graveyards, to pre-Christian cremation ceremonies, and finally to the idea of Christian burial. Browne then explores, with a more melancholic meditation, man's struggles with mortality and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in the living world. This edition includes a magisterial discourse on Sir Thomas Browne taken from the first chapter of W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn. |
Contributor Bio(s): Browne, Thomas: - Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English Renaissance author and physician. He wrote extensively about medicine, geography, philosophy, and Christian spirituality.Sebald, W. G.: - W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted and Campo Santo. |