Roman funeral urns unearthed in Norfolk prompt a sweeping meditation on death, memory, and the vanity of earthly monuments.
Books that mention Urn Burial (3)
Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: “It happened to be a small and very lovely edition of Sir Thomas Browne, containing the "Urn Burial," the "Hydriotaphia," and the "Garden of Cyrus," and, opening it at a passage which he knew very nearly by heart, Denham began to read and, for some time, continued to read.”
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges: “yo sigo revisando en los quietos días del hotel de Adrogué una indecisa traducción quevediana... del Urn Burial de Browne.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “slowly revising a baroque translation of Sir Thomas Browne's Urne Burial!, of which my own favorite sentence remains "Life is a pure flame"”