Editing Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial (section)

==Influence==
''Urn Burial'' has been admired by [[Charles Lamb]], [[Samuel Johnson]], [[John Cowper Powys]], [[James Joyce]], and [[Herman Melville]],<ref name="Foley1984"/> while [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] said that it "smells in every word of the [[sepulchre]]".<ref name="Emerson"/>

Browne's text is discussed in [[W. G. Sebald]]'s novel ''[[The Rings of Saturn]]''.<ref name="SebaldNote" />

The English composer [[William Alwyn]] wrote his Symphony No. 5, subtitled ''Hydriotaphia'', in homage to Browne's imagery and rhythmic prose.

The American composer [[Douglas J. Cuomo]]'s ''The Fate of His Ashes: Requiem for Victims of Power'' for chorus and organ takes its text from ''Urn Burial.''

[[Eric Ambler]] excerpts a passage from chapter 5 ("But the iniquity of oblivion blindely scattereth her poppy...") as the epigram for the novel ''[[The Mask of Dimitrios (novel)|The Mask of Dimitrios]]''.

[[Derek Walcott]] uses an excerpt as the epigraph to his poem "Ruins of a Great House",<ref name="Walcott" /> while [[Edgar Allan Poe]] quotes the ''Urn Burial'' in the epigraph of "[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]".<ref name="Poe" />

[[Kevin Powers]] uses an excerpt from the fifth chapter ("To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetfull of evils past...") as one of the epigraphs for his novel "[[The Yellow Birds]]".

[[Alain de Botton]] references the work in his book ''[[Status Anxiety]]''.<ref name="Botton2004" />

[[Jorge Luis Borges|Borges]] refers to it in the final line of his short story "[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]]".

It also appears in the novel ''[[Sanshirō (novel)|Sanshirō]]'', written by [[Natsume Sōseki]]; Hirota-sensei lent the book to Sanshirō.

The British mystery writer Reginald Hill uses quotes from ''Urn Burial'' as chapter headings for his novel "[[Urn Burial (novel)|Urn Burial]]" (1975), also known as "[[Beyond the Bone]]" written under the name Patrick Ruell.

The American playwright, screenwriter and essayist Tony Kushner uses the work as the point of departure for his five-act "epic farce," ''Hydriotaphia or the Death of Doctor Browne'', first produced in New York City in June 1987, by Heat & Light Co., Inc., and then in April 1997 by the Graduate Acting Program of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with a coproduction the following year by the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre in Berkeley, California.<ref>Kushner, Tony (2000). ''Death & Taxes: Hydriotaphia & Other Plays''. New York: Theatre Communications Group. Pp. 27-30.</ref>

American nonfiction writer [[Colin Dickey]] compares some of Browne's writing on death in Urn Burial to the fate of Browne's skull in his book ''Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius''.