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§104. Rhys, Hedley H. (ed.):
Seventeenth-Century Science and the Arts
(Princeton, 1961).
§105. Robb, Nesca:
Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance
(1935). Cf. §72.
§106. Roots, Ivan:
The Great Rebellion 1642–1660
(1966).
§107. Schmitt, Charles B.: ‘Perennial Philosophy: From Agostino Steuco to Leibniz’,
JHL
, XXVII (1966), 505–32.
,§108. Scholem, Gershom G.:
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
, rev. ed. (1946), and
On the Kabbalab and its Symbolism
, trans. R. Manheim (1965). The best studies of cabbalistic thought. Cf. next entry.
§109. Secret, François:
Les Kabbalistes chrétiens de la Renaissance
(Paris, 1964). Cf. previous entry.
§110. Sells, Arthur L.:
The Paradise of Travellers: The Italian Influence on Englishmen in the Seventeenth Century
(1964). Cf. §114.
§111. Shumaker, Wayne:
The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance
(Berkeley, 1972).
§112. Smith, A.G.R.:
Science and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeentb Centuries
(1972).
§113. Stauffer, Donald A.:
English Biography before 1700
(Cambridge, Mass., 1930). Cf. §41.
§114. Stoye, John W.:
English Travellers Abroad, 1604–1667: Their Influence in English Society and Politics
(1952). Cf. §110.
§115. Svendsen, Kester:
Milton and Science
(Cambridge, Mass., 1956). Cf. §§34, 51.
§116. Temkin, Owsei:
Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy
(Ithaca, N.Y., 1973).
§117. Thorndike, Lynn:
A History of Magic and Experimental Science
(1941–1958), Vols. V-VIII. On the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
§118. Trapp, J.B. (ed.):
Background to the English Renaissance
(1974). Six lectures.
§119. Treasure, G.R.R.:
Seventeenth Century France
(1966). Cf. §80.
§120. Trinkaus, Charles:
In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanistic Thought
(1970), 2 vols.
§121. Tulloch, John:
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century
, rev. ed. (Edinburgh, 1874), 2 vols. Still a reliable account.
§122. Walker, D.P.:
The Decline of Hell: Seventeenth-Century Discussions of Eternal Torment
(1964).
§123. Walker, D.P.: ‘Orpheus the Theologian and Renaissance Platonism’,
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
, XVI (1953), 100–20; repr. in his
The Ancient Theology
(1972), Ch. I.
§124. Warnke, Frank J.:
Versions of Baroque: European Literature in the 17th Century
(New Haven, 1972).
§125. Weidhorn, Manfred:
Dreams in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
(The Hague, 1970).
§126. West, Robert H.:
Milton and the Angels
(Athens, Ga., 1955). On the period’s angelology.
§127. Westfall, Richard S.:
Science and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England
(New Haven, 1958), Cf. 569.
§128. Willey, Basil:
The Seventeenth-Century Background
(1934).
§129. Willey, Basil: ‘The Touch of Cold Philosophy’, as below (§155), pp. 369–76.
§130. Williams, Arnold:
The Common Expositor: An Account of the Commentaries on Genesis, 1527–1633
(Chapel Hill, 1948).
§131. Williamson, George:
Seventeenth Century Contexts
(1960).
5132. Wilson, Charles:
England’s Apprenticeship 1603–1763
(1965).
§133. Wilson, F.P.:
Elizabethan and Jacobean
(Oxford, 1945). An introduction to the period of transition. Cf. §75.
§134. Wright, Louis B.:
Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England
(Chapel Hill, 1935).
§135. Yates, Frances A.:
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
(1964). The best survey of Renaissance hermetic thought.
§136. Zagorin, Perez:
The Court and the Country: The Beginnings of the English Revolution
(1969).

THE PROSE OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

General Studies

[The following list includes general as well as particular studies of representative prose writers from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries. For other studies of individual authors, consult the bibliographies in
Seventeenth Century English Prose
, ed. David Novarr (1967), pp. 485–527, and in Douglas Bush, as above, §20. For Milton, see the bibliography in his
Selected Prose
, ed. C.A. Patrides (Penguin Books, 1974), pp. 411 ff.]

§137. Adolph, Robert:
The Rise of Modern Prose Style
(Cambridge, Mass., 1968). With some remarks on
Religio Medici
, pp. 153–6.
§138. Babb, Lawrence:
Sanity in Bedlam: A Study of Robert Burton’s ‘Anatomy of Melancholy’
(East Lansing, 1959).
§139. Barish, Jonas A.: ‘Baroque Prose in the Theater of Ben Jonson’,
PMLA
, LXXIII (1958), 184–95.
§140. Barish, Jonas A.: ‘The Prose Style of John Lyly’,
ELH
, XXIII (1956), 14–35.
§141. Beum, Robert: ‘The Scientific Affinities of English Baroque Prose’,
English Miscellany
, XIII (1962), 59–80.
§142. Boughner, Daniel C.: ‘Notes on Hooker’s Prose’,
RES
, XV (1939), 194–200. Cf. §153.
§143. Brinkley, Roberta F. (ed.): as above (p. 537), pp. 411–500. Cole-ridge’s remarks on the period’s prose style generally, but also on Browne, Bunyan, Burton, Donne, Milton,
et al
.
§144. Carey, John: ‘Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Prose’, in
English Poetry and Prose, 1540–1674
, ed. Christopher Ricks (1970), Ch. XII.
5145. Crane, William G.:
Wit and Rhetoric in the Renaissance: The Formal Basis of Elizabethan Prose Style
(1973).
§146. Croll, Morris W.:
Style, Rhetoric, and Rhythm
, ed. J. Max Patrick
et al.
(Princeton, 1966). Important essays on Renaissance prose and rhetoric.
§147. Crook, Margaret B.,
et al.
:
The Bible and its Literary Associations
(1937).
§148. Daiches, David:
The King James Version of the English Bible
(Chicago, 1941).
§149. Eliot, T.S.: ‘Lancelot Andrewes’ (1926), in his
Selected Essays
(1932), pp. 299–310. Cf. §162.
§150. Elton, Oliver: ‘English Prose Numbers’, in his
A Sheaf of Papers
(1922), pp. 130–63. Cf. 55209, 222, 229.
§151. Fish, Stanley (ed.):
Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern Essays in Criticism
(1971).
§152. Gordon, Ian A.:
The Movement of English Prose
(1966), Ch. VII–XII.
§153. Hill, W. Speed: ‘The Authority of Hooker’s Style’,
SP
, LXVII (1970), 328–38. Cf. §142.
§154. Howell, A.C.: ‘
Res et Verba
: Words and Things’,
ELH
, XIII (1946), 131–43; repr. in §151.
§155. Jones, Richard F.:
The Seventeenth Century
(Stanford, 1951). With four essays on prose style, two of them repr. in §151.
§156. Kranidas, Thomas: ‘Milton and the Rhetoric of Zeal’,
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
, VI (1965), 423–32; also in his
The Fierce Equation
(The Hague, 1965).
§157. Krapp, George P.:
The Rise of English Literary Prose
(1915). An introductory historical survey.
§158. Lewis, C.S.:
The Literary Impact of the Authorized Version
(1950); repr. with other essays in
The Bible read as Literature
, ed. Mary E. Reid (Cleveland, 1959). Cf. §147.
5159. Lowes, John Livingston: ‘The Noblest Monument of English Prose’, in his
Essays in Appreciation
(Boston, 1936), pp. 3–31. On the King James version of the Bible (1611). Cf. previous entry.
§160. Mazzeo, Joseph A.: ‘Seventeenth-Century English Prose Style: The Quest for a Natural Style’,
Mosaic
, VI (1973), iii, 107–44. On Browne, pp. 124–8.
§161. Miner, Earl: ‘Inclusive and Exclusive Decorums in Seventeenth-Century Prose’,
Language and Style
, V (1972), 192–203.
§162. Mitchell, W. Fraser:
English Pulpit Oratory from Andrewes to Tillotson
(1932).
5163. Mueller, William R.:
John Donne: Preacher
(Princeton, 1962). Cf. previous entry.
§164. Sharrock, Roger:
John Bunyan
(1954).
§165. Stapleton, Laurence: ‘John Donne: The Moment of the Sermon’, in her
The Elected Circle: Studies in the Art of Prose
(Princeton, 1973), Ch. I. Cf. §§162, 163, 168.
§166. Stedmont, J.M.: ‘English Prose of the Seventeenth Century’,
Dalhousie Review
, XXX (1950), 269–78.
§167. Vickers, Brian:
Francis Bacon and Renaissance Prose
(Cambridge, 1968).
§168. Webber, Joan:
Contrary Music: The Prose Style of John Donne
(Madison, 1963).
§169. Webber, Joan:
The Eloquent ‘I’: Style and Self in Seventeenth-Century Prose
(Madison, 1968). Essays on Baxter, Browne, Bunyan, Burton, Donne, Lilburne, Milton, and Traherne.
§170. White, Helen C.:
English Devotional Literature, Prose, 1600–1640
(Madison, 1931). A survey.
§171. Williamson, George:
The Senecan Amble: A Study in Prose Form from Bacon to Collier
(1951).
§172. Williamson, George: ‘Senecan Style in the Seventeenth Century’, in his
Milton and Others
(1965), Ch. XII; repr. in §151.
§173. Wilson, F.P.:
Seventeenth Century Prose
(Berkeley, 1960). Lectures on Browne, Burton, biography, and the sermon. Cf. §133.

STUDIES OF BROWNE

The principal editions of the collated
Works
are
W
and
K
; and of selected writings:
M
,
E
, and Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1968). See also the entries below,
pp. 551
,
553
,
554
,
555
.

The major bibliographical guides to Browne are:
BTB
; Olivier Leroy,
A French Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne
(1931); and Dennis G. Donovan in
Elizabethan Supplements X
(1968) as well as in ‘Recent Studies in Browne’,
ELR
, II (1972), 271–9. See also above,
p. 539
.

Biographies rely in the first instance on John Whitefoot’s ‘Some Minutes for the Life of Sir Thomas Browne’, in Browne’s
Posthumous Works
(1712), pp. xxiv-xxxvii; quoted at length by Samuel Johnson, above, pp. 502–5. Between Whitefoot and Johnson intervened Andrew Kippis with an account in his
Biographia Britannica
, 2nd ed. (1730), II, 627–37, which superseded Anthony à Wood’s earlier but highly eclectic sketch in
Athena Oxonienses
(ed. Philip Bliss [1820], IV, 56–9).

For modern biographies of Browne, see
§§176
,
190
,
198
. His birth on 19 October 1605 occurred, according to Johnstone Parr, between 8:11 and 9:02 a.m.! (
ELN
, XI [1973], 44–6). Miriam M. Tildesley’s discussion of
Sir Thomas Browne: his Skull, Portraits, and Ancestry
(Cambridge, 1927) is reprinted from
Biometrica
, XV (1923), 3–76, and abstracted in the appendix to
§190
. What little is known of Browne at Leyden is cited by R.W. Innes Smith,
English-Speaking Students of Medicine at the University of Leyden
(Edinburgh, 1932); cf. Frank L. Huntley, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Leyden Thesis’,
TLS
, 8 May 1953, p. 301. Jac. G. Riewald in ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Supposed Visit to the Continent’,
ES
, XXVIII (1947), 171–3, denies that Browne visited Holland in 1665. A more important and much misunderstood episode in his life is placed in its correct perspective by Malcolm Letts in ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Witchcraft’,
N&Q
, 11th Series, V (1912), 221–3, and especially by Dorothy Tyler in ‘A Review of the Interpretation of Sir Thomas Browne’s Part in a Witch Trial in 1664’,
Anglia
, LIV (1930), 179–95. Finally, Margaret Toynbee considers ‘Some Friends of Sir Thomas Browne’, in
Norfolk Archaeology
, XXXI (1957), 377–94.

The most indispensable record of Browne’s stupendous learning is
A Catalogue of the Libraries of the Learned Sir Thomas Brown, and Dr Edward Brown, his Son
(1711).

General Studies

[In addition to the studies listed below, see
§§16
,
20
,
31
,
42
,
81
,
88
,
95
,
96
,
111
,
115
,
130
,
151
,
171
,
173
, etc.]

§174. Anderton, Basil: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Sketches from a Library Window
(Cambridge, 1922), Ch. VIII. On the prose rhythm.
§175. Anon: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’,
TLS
, 24 May 1928 (pp. 365–86); partly reprinted in §214.
§176. Bennett, Joan:
Sir Thomas Browne
(Cambridge, 1962). Highly recommended.
§177. Bischoff, Dietrich:
Sir Thomas Browne als Stilkünstler: Ein Beitrag zur Deutung der engliscben Barockliteratur
(Heidelberg, 1943).
§178. Blan, Joseph I.: ‘Browne’s Interest in Cabalism’,
PMLA
, XLIX (1934), 963–64. Cf. §14.
§179. Brown, Huntington:
Rabelais in English Literature
(Cambridge, Mass., 1933), pp. 105–10.
§180. Bulwer-Lytton, Edward: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Quarterly Essays
(1875), pp. 137–75. An appreciation.
§181. Cawley, Robert R.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and his Reading’, in
Studies in Sir Thomas Browne
, ed. R.R. Cawley and G. Yost (Eugene, Oregon, 1965), pp. 104–66; revised from
PMLA
, XLVIII (1933), 426–70. Cf. §178.
§182. Chalmers, Gordon K.: ‘Hieroglyphs and Sir Thomas Browne’,
Virginia Quarterly Review
, XXI (1935), 547–60, and ‘That Universal and Public Manuscript’, ibid., XXVI (1950), 414–30. Cf. §§275–77.
§183. Coleridge, Samuel Taylor: as above (p. 537).
§184. Denonain, Jean-Jacques:
La Personnalité de Sir Thomas Browne: Essai d’application de la caractérologie à la critique et l’histoire littéraires
(Paris, 1959).
§185. De Quincey, Thomas:
Rhetoric
, in his
Collected Writings
, ed. David Masson (1897), X, esp. pp. 104–5, as well as in
De Quincey’s Literary Criticism
, ed. Helen Darbishire (1909), esp. p. 55. Also in §174.
§186. Dowden, Edward: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature
(1900), Ch. II.
§187. Dunn, William P.:
Sir Thomas Browne: A Study in Religious Philosophy
, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis, 1950).
§188. Dutt, William A.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Hall’, in his
Some Literary Associations of East Anglia
(1907), Ch. VIII. An appreciation.
§189. Finch, Jeremiah S.: ‘The Humanity of Sir Thomas Browne’,
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
, XXVII (1951), 521–30. An appreciation.
§190. Finch, Jeremiah S.:
Sir Thomas Browne: A Doctor’s Life of Science and Faith
(1950, repr. 1961).
§191. Fisch, Harold:
Jerusalem and Albion: The Hebraic Factor in Seventeenth-Century Literature
(1964), pp. 46–8, 206–10.
§192. Gosse, Sir Edmund:
Sir Thomas Browne
(1905). Cf. Strachey’s adverse review (§227).
§193. Green, Peter:
Sir Thomas Browne
(‘Writers and their Work’, 1959).
§194. Hazlitt, William:
Lectures chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth
(1820), pp. 292–306.
§195. Howell, A.C.: ‘A note on Sir Thomas Browne’s Knowledge of Languages’,
SP
, XXII (1925), 412–17. See above, p. 147, note 64.
5196. Howell, A.C.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne as Wit and Humorist’,
SP
, XLII (1945), 564–77.
§197. Huntley, Frank L.: ‘A Garland for Sir Thomas Browne, M.D., Knight’,
Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review
, LXIII (Dec. 1956), 23–33. An appreciation.
5198. Huntley, Frank L.:
Sir Thomas Browne: A Biographical and Critical Study
(Ann Arbor, 1962). Highly recommended.
§199. Huntley, Frank L.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne, M.D., William Harvey, and the Metaphor of the Circle’,
BHM
, XXV (1951), 236–47, and ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Metaphor of the Circle’,
JHI
, XIV (1953), 353–64.
§200. Hutchinson, G.E.: ‘Tuba mirum spargens sonum’, in his
The Itinerant Ivory Tower: Scientific and Literary Essays
(New Haven, 1953), pp. 186–98.
§201. King, James Roy: ‘Sir Thomas Browne: Scientific Data and Mystical Experience’, in his
Studies in Six Seventeenth-Century Writers
(Athens, Ohio, 1966), Ch. III Cf. §242.
§202. Leroy, Olivier:
Le Chevalier Thomas Browne (1605–82), médecin, styliste & métaphysicien
(Paris, 1931).
§203. Letts, M.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and his Books’,
N&Q
, 11th Series, X (1914), 321–3, 342–4, 361–2. On the 1711 sale catalogue (above, p. 547).
§204. Löffler, Azno:
Sir Thomas Browne als Virtuoso: Die Bedeutung der Gelehrsamkeit für sein literarisches Alterswerk
(Nuremberg, 1972).
§205. Loiseau, J.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne écrivain “métaphysique”,’
Revue anglo-américaine
, X (1933), 385–98.
§206. Merton, Egon S.:
Science and Imagination in Sir Thomas Browne
(1949). Highly recommended, Cf. §§284–9
§207. Merton, E.S.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne on Astronomy’,
History of Ideas News Letter
, IV (1958), 83–6.
§208. Merton, E.S.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Interpretation of Dreams’,
PQ
, XXVIII (1949), 497–503.
§209. Moloney, Michael F.: ‘Metres and
Cursus
in Sir Thomas Browne’s Prose’,
JEGP
, LVIII (1959), 60–67.
§210. Moran, Berna: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Reading on the Turks’,
N&Q
, CXCVII (1952), 380–82, 403–6.
§211 . More, Paul Elmer: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Shelburne Essays
, 6th Series:
Studies of Religious Dualism
(1909), pp. 154–86.
§212. Morgan, Edwin: ‘ “Strong Lines” and Strong Minds: Reflections
on the Prose of Browne and Johnson’,
CJ
, IV (1951), 481–91.
§213. Nathanson, Leonard:
The Strategy of Truth: A Study of Sir Thomas Browne
(Chicago, 1967). The chapter on
Hydriotaphia
is reprinted in §151.
§214. Needham, Joseph:
The Great Amphibium: Four Lectures on the Position of Religion in a World Dominated by Science
(1931). With some remarks on Browne, pp. 45–50.
§215. Needham, Joseph: ‘Thomas Browne and the Beginning of Chemical Embryology’, in his
A History of Embryology
(Cambridge, 1934), pp. 110–12.
§216. Olivero, Federico: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Studi britannici
(Turin, 1931), pp. 57–101
§217. Osler, Sir William: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays
(Oxford, 1908), pp. 248–77; also in his
Selected Writings
(1951), Ch. IV. An appreciation.
§218. Pater, Walter: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Appreciations
(1889), pp. 127–66.
§219. Phelps, Gilbert: ‘The Prose of Donne and Browne’, in
From Donne to Marvell
, being
A Guide to English Literature
, ed. Boris Ford, III (1956), 116–30.
§220. Praz, Mario: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’,
ES
, XI (1929), 161–71.
§221. Raven, Charles E.: ‘The Coming of Modern Man:
Religio Medici
’, as above (§102), Ch. XVIII.
§222. Saintsbury, George:
A History of English Prose Rhythm
(1912), pp. 181–200. Cf. §174.
§223. Schultz, Howard:
Milton and Forbidden Knowledge
(1955), pp. 57–64.
§224. Sencourt, Robert:
Outflying Philosophy
(Hildesheim, 1925). ‘A literary study of the religious element’ in Donne, Browne, and Vaughan.
§225. Stapleton, Laurence: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Meditative Prose’, as above (§ 165), Ch. II.
§226. Stephen, Sir Leslie: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Hours in a Library
, 2nd Series (1876), Ch. I.
§227. Strachey, Lytton: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Books and Characters French and English
(1922), pp. 31–44. Highly recommended.
§228. Symonds, John Addington: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his edition of
Religio Medici
etc. (1886), pp. vii-xxxi.
§229. Tempest, Norton R.: ‘Rhythm in the Prose of Sir Thomas Browne’,
RES
, III (1927), 308–18. Cf. §307.
§230. Texte, Joseph: ‘La descendance de Montaigne: Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Études de littérature européenne
(Paris, 1898), pp. 51–93. Cf. §16.
§231. Thaler, Alwin: ‘Shakspere and Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Shakspere’s Silences
(Cambridge, Mass., 1929), Ch. III. On Shakespeare’s ‘unmistakable influence’ on Browne.
§232. Thaler, Alwin: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Elizabethans’,
SP
, XXVIII (1931), 87–117.
§233. Wallerstein, Ruth:
Studies in Seventeenth-Century Poetic
(Madison,
1950), pp. 244–56.
§234. Warren, Austin: ‘The Style of Sir Thomas Browne’,
Kenyon Review
, XIII (1951), 674–87; repr. in his
Connections
(Ann Arbor, 1970), pp. 11–2 and in §151. Highly recommended.
§235. Whallon, William: ‘Hebraic Synonymy in Sir Thomas Browne’,
ELH
, XXVIII (1961), 335–52. On the ‘parallelism’ of his prose.
§236. Whibley, Charles: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, in his
Essays in Biography
(1913), pp. 277–311. An appreciation.
§237. Wiley, Margaret L.: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Genesis of Paradox’,
JHI
, IX (1948), 303–22; repr. in her
The Subtle Knot: Creative Scepticism in Seventeenth-Century England
(1952), Ch. V.
5238. Willey, Basil: ‘A Note on Sir Thomas Browne as a Moralist’, in his
The English Moralists
(1964), Ch. XII.
§239. Willey, Basil: ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, as above (5128). Ch. III–IV.
§240. Withington, Robert: ‘Religio duorum medicorum’,
International Journal of Ethics
, XLIII (1932–3), 413–28. An appreciation of Browne and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
§241. Yost, George: ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Aristotle’, in
Studies
(as above, §181), pp. 41–103.
§242. Ziegler, Dewey K.:
In Divided and Distinguished Worlds: Religion and Rhetoric in the Writings of Sir Thomas Browne
(Cambridge, Mass., 1943).
§243. Zolla, Elémire: ‘Musica e Cabala in Sir Thomas Browne’,
English Miscellany
, XVI (1965), 117–29.

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