Taken together the efforts represent the most sustained attention devoted to Browne since the 1960s. And though it’s probably too much to hope that he will become a household name, the revival might at least give him a shot at rejoining the list of literary monuments people complain about not having read, like Joyce’s “Ulysses” or Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy.”
Hard not like a guy who could write that "Charles the fifth can never hope to live within two Methusela's of Hector." The first book I downloaded on my Kindle was Religio Medici.
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