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The Anatomy of Melancholy

Paperback • 2001 • English

The Anatomy of Melancholy

By Robert Burton

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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 ...Show more

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9780940322660

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Format

Paperback

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