Sir Thomas Browne : a life / Reid Barbour.

"Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings within the diverse intel...

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Main Author: Barbour, Reid (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Introduction : "my life...a peece of Poetry"
  • Part I : Seeds
  • London, 1605-1616
  • Winchester and Ireland, 1616-1623
  • Oxford, 1623-1631
  • Part II : Transplant
  • Montpellier, 1631-1632
  • Padua, 1632-1633
  • Leiden, 1633-1634
  • Part III : Fruition
  • Halifax, 1634-1637
  • Norwich, 1637-1649
  • Norwich 1649-1660
  • Norwich, 1660-1671
  • Norwich, 1672-1682
  • Conclusion : chasing the butterfly
  • Bibliography
  • Index.