Urn Burial

Sir Thomas Browne

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EssaysNDP1188First published 1990

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 a...

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Urn Burial

Sir Thomas Browne

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