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The Private Opinions of Sir Thomas Browne

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This essay raises and proposes strategies for answering a single question: what is it about Religio Medici that has provoked so many of its readers into attacking it? I draw in particular on the attacks of four influential readers, two from the seventeenth century (Sir Kenelm Digby and Alexander Ross), two from the twentieth (Stanley Fish and Michael Wilding). These attacks tend to express irritation at what is most distinctive of Browne as a thinker and writer: his self-absorption, his tolerance, his preference for the intuitive over the systematic.

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1889Appreciations, With An Essay On Style 1975Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature 1890The works of Sir Thomas Browne 1955Coleridge on the seventeenth century 1977The major works 1973Sir Thomas Browne's Religio medici and two seventeenth century critics,1987Sir Thomas Browne 1962Sir Thomas Browne: 'A Man of Achievement in Literature'

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