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A work by Thomas Browne challenging and refuting the "vulgar" or common errors and superstitions of his age.
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
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Page : 414 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 1646
Category : Anthropology
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A work by Thomas Browne challenging and refuting the "vulgar" or common errors and superstitions of his age.
Author : Lloyd Schwartz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2021-08-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 022679508X
"There is no one quite like Lloyd Schwartz, whose unique combination of comedy and pathos is rare in contemporary American poetry. Over the years and books, Schwartz has developed a pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, producing poems that are hilarious in their depiction of unsettling social situations, while still managing to find the kernel of poignancy buried in everyday encounters. He is a master of the speech-driven style of verse, which is based on overheard, interrupted, or invented conversations that are by turns humorous and deeply unsettling, intimate yet decorous. In the new poems section, Schwartz brings his broad experience across the arts (including his many years as a music critic and commentator) to bear, with poems that recall the feeling of both performing and apprehending a piece of music, say, or a painting, a film, or a poem; he explores the figures depicted within these artworks, their fears and desires, revealing whole unexplored, interior worlds, a universe in a pack of tarot cards. This collection, which gathers the very best of Schwartz's work over his long, distinguished career, amply displays the tenderness and delicacy of feeling that we've come to rely on in his poetry. "Who's on First?" is a fitting capstone to a long life lived in the arts"--
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 1736
Category : Gardening
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Author : David Barnes
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2012
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ISBN : 9780956316653
A collection of prose and poetry inspired by Sir Thomas Browne's 'Pseudodoxia Epidemica'.
Author : Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1497648939
A stirring and sobering diagnosis of the challenges that confront anyone laboring to renew America’s tradition of ordered liberty. Classicist Bruce Thornton’s Plagues of the Mind is a forceful vindication of the West’s tradition of rational, critical inquiry—a legacy now largely jettisoned in favor of a host of new deities, environmentalism, feminism, primitivism, New Age, and the cult of the therapeutic among them.
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
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Page : 432 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Christianity
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Author : Sir Thomas Browne
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Reid Barbour
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0199236216
An impressive line-up of scholars from across the world explore the significance of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Doctor, linguist, scientist, and natural historian, Browne was also the writer of some of the most remarkable prose in the English language.
Author : Sir Thomas Browne
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Christian ethics
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Author : W. G. Sebald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081122130X
"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."