On Melancholy by Robert Burton

On Melancholy

Robert Burton
108 pages
Hesperus Press
Jan 2014
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<p><b>Journey through the subject of melancholia in an easily accessible volume touching on topics from love and sex to religion and geography</b></p><p>Burton's <i>The Anatomy of Melancholy</i> is one of the great but unclassifiable prose works in English literature: diverting, delightfully rambling, and filled with recondite learning and peculiar facts and speculations. Burton, frustrated at the stagnant, disorderly society in which he found himself, became convinced that the problems of England lay in its inclination to melancholy. This is the starting-point, or pretext, for a hugely wide-ranging survey of the causes, descriptions (and cures) of melancholy. Burton's unsystematic approach to his subject contributes greatly to its charm and interest, for much of it is composed of digressions that are, in effect, self-contained essays on all manner of subjects: cosmology, religious fanaticism, devils and spirits, food, love, and sex.</p>
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Pages 108
Publisher Hesperus Press
Published 2014
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