> How to Write English Prose > There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful; but two afford me part

> How to Write English Prose > There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful; but two afford me particularly intense pleasure. > To my mind, each is in its own way a perfect, exquisitely faceted gem of English prose from an especially glorious literary epoch. The music of the one has haunted me for most of my life; Oh come on. Sir Thomas Browne looks well worth reading but the author of this article is unreadably pretentious.