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The anatomy Of Melancholy
[Paperback - 2001]
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Category: Psychology
Sub-category: Psychology
Additional Category: Modern History - Medical
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9780940322660 | Pages: 1424
Shipping Weight: 1.23 | Dimensions: 4.97 x 2.3 x 7.98 inches

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One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell reports, said it was the only book that he rose early in the morning to read with pleasure. In this surprisingly compact and elegant new edition, Burton's spectacular verbal labyrinth is sure to delight, instruct, and divert today's readers as much as it has those of the past four centuries.

Robert Burton was an English scholar, born in 1577. Entered Brasenose College, Oxford, 1593. Student of Christ Church, 1599; B.D., 1614 and Vicar of St. Thomas's, Oxford, 1616, and rector of Seagrave from 1630 until his death in 1640. Best known for writingThe Anatomy of Melancholy.

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