RAUBER, DONALD2022-05-242022-05-241958-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27177302 pagesAlthough Sir Thomas Browne's most important work, the Religio Medici, created an intellectual stir at the time of its publication, the fickle current of taste and appreciation soon veered away and the book was left stranded on the sandbars of the quaint and curious. From the age of Pope to the present time, critics who have looked at the work at all have usually viewed it with a kind of amused condescension. During the eighteenth century it suffered great neglect. The nineteenth century corrected this. but its romantic admiration did Browne no great favor. Lamb and his friends took Browne under their protective wing , but they love d him for his quaintness and strangeness. much as a magpie loves bright stones and bottle caps. It was not until comparatively recent times that either the Religio or its modest author received much serious attention, except from the viewpoint of style.Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USTerminal Project