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The Seventeenth Century, 1603-1660. Prose And Poetry. MINOR PROSE WRITERS. Among the prose authors of the period who hold an assured secondary position in the history of English literature three or four may be mentioned: Robert Burton, Oxford scholar, minister, and recluse, whose Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a vast and quaint compendium of information both scientific and literary, has largely influenced numerous later writers; Jeremy Taylor, royalist clergyman and bishop, one of the most eloquent and spiritual of English preachers, author of Holy Living (1650) and Holy Dying (1651); Izaak Walton, London tradesman and student, best known for his Compleat Angler (1653), but author also of charming brief lives of Donne, George Herbert, and others of his contemporaries; and Sir Thomas Browne, a scholarly physician of Norwich, who elaborated a fastidiously poetic Latinized prose style for his pensively delightful Religio Medici (A Physicians Religion--1643) and other works.
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