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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Volume I of III) by Robert Burton

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Author: Robert Burton
Number of Pages: 338 pages
Published Date: 30 Jan 2010
Publisher: Digireads.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781420934724
File Name: The.Anatomy.of.Melancholy.(Volume.I.of.III).pdf
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A labor of love taking much of Burton's life to write and revise, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is an expansive, informative, and eccentric work of genius first published in 1621. Burton was an English churchman and a scholar, and his depth and breadth of knowledge is readily apparent in this inexhaustible book. Through the frame of a medical treatise, Burton begins with melancholy and slowly deals with various mental states, frequently digressing with commentary from a myriad of other fields, including history, literature, psychology, astronomy, and theology. Though he quotes medical experts from Hippocrates and Aristotle to many medieval authorities, Burton just as often includes Latin poetry in a manner bordering on a stream of consciousness. Through this plethora of references on the human condition, as well as Burton's alternately serious and satirical tone, "The Anatomy of Melancholy" eloquently portrays the whole of human knowledge up to its day in a charming and imaginative way that will allow this work to endure as a classic of the English language. In this edition we have the first of three volumes.

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