In short, readers will find here the essence of Burton's vast book and#8212 the passages which, according to W. basic and literal level, requires several things of us. Robert Burtons labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to anatomize and cut up every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life. For this edition, the editors carefully selected those passages containing the most psychological and general interest, eliminating a good deal of nonessential material, but retaining the incomparable wit, eccentric charm, imagination, and richness of thought of the original. Four hundred years ago, Robert Burton wrote an epic attempt to understand the universal experience of melancholy. Keywords: Melancholy, medicine, anatomy, science, religion, satire. Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Burtons masterpiece, this is the only fully edited modern edition, now published as a landmark hardback edition. Ostensibly an elaborately systematized medical treatise dealing with various morbid mental states and#8212 their causes, symptoms, and cures and#8212 the Anatomy is much more: a compendium of memorable utterances on the human condition in general, compiled from classical, scholastic, and contemporary sources. He was also a witty, pedantic, and eloquent genius, who devoted the major part of his life to writing The Anatomy of Melancholy, one of the richest, most inexhaustible books in the English language. English churchman and scholar Robert Burton (1576and#8211 1639) was a passionate student of medicine, history, literature, and science and#8212 the whole of human knowledge.
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