Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. New York. 1927. Tudor Publishing Company. Edited by Floyd Dell & Paul Jordan-Smith. 1036 pages. hardcover.

  
DESCRIPTION - An amazing and entertaining book on the causes, symptoms, varieties and cure of morbid depression. On its surface, The Anatomy Of Melancholy is presented as a medical textbook in which Burton applies his vast and varied learning, in the scholastic manner, to the subject of melancholia (which includes, although it is not limited to, what is now termed clinical depression). Though presented as a medical text, The Anatomy of Melancholy is as much a sui generis work of literature as it is a scientific or philosophical text, and Burton addresses far more than his stated subject. In fact, the Anatomy uses melancholy as the lens through which all human emotion and thought may be scrutinized, and virtually the entire contents of a 17th-century library are marshalled into service of this goal. It is encyclopedic in its range and reference.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY - Robert Burton (8 February 1577 - 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire.

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