The Anatomy Of Melancholy (Everyman's University Library) (Michigan Historical Reprint) (Milestones of Thought in the History of Ideas)

by Martin Buren Van Perley and Robert Burton

William H. Gass (Introduction)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0940322668
  • ISBN13 9780940322660
  • Publish Date 30 April 2001 (first published April 1973)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
  • Imprint NYRB Classics