Urn Burial

by Thomas Browne

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811218929
• ISBN13: 9780811218924
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 6.9"