The Anatomy Of Melancholy

The Anatomy Of Melancholy (Paperback)

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Author: Robert Burton

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc

Published: 30 Apr 2001

ISBN13: 9780940322660

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 ...

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