prose-laureate

Updated: May 12, 2025

'Read where I first cast my anchor, said John Knox to his wife, sitting weeping at his bedside. At which she opened and read in the Gospel of John. Sir Thomas Browne is neither more nor less than the very prose-laureate of death. He writes as no other man has ever written about death. Death is everywhere in all Sir Thomas Browne's books.

Alexander Whyte - Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici': an Appreciation