An edition of The anatomy of melancholy (1638)
The anatomy of melancholy
what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, & several cures of it. In three partitions, philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up
By Robert Burton
Publish Date
1925
Publisher
Nonesuch Press
Language
eng
Pages
727
Description:
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.
subjects: Melancholy, Depression, History, Early works to 1800