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 Biography of Robert Burton
635 words, approx. 2.1 pages
 The English scholar and clergyman Robert Burton (1577-1640) wrote "The Anatomy of Melancholy," an analysis of the symptoms, causes, and cures of the melancholic temperament. Robert Burton was born at Lindley, Leicestershire, on Feb. 8, 1577. He entered B... summary from source:
 Biography of Robert Burton
3282 words, approx. 10.9 pages
 Robert Burton is known for The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), a lengthy treatise on the causes and treatment of melancholy that became one of the most popular English books of the early seventeenth century. The primary source of information about Burton's...
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 The Anatomy of Melancholy Information
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The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically,...
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 The Washington Post Anatomies of Melancholy
01/13/2002: 867 words, approx. 3 pages THE DAY UNDERNEATH THE DAY By C. Dale Young Triquarterly. 68 pp. 15.95 Because he is a physician as well as a poet, C. Dale Young straddles the realm of science and the world of emotion. In The Day Underneath the... summary from source:
Renaissance Quarterly The Anatomy of Melancholy. (book reviews)
12/22/1996: 772 words, approx. 3 pages In the mid 1960s when I was working on a doctoral dissertation on seventeenth-century melancholy, Professor Dennis Donovan asked me how I could undertake such a project when Burton still "awaited his editor." Donovan himself was embarked on massive bibliographical researches on this encyclopedic...
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 Critical Essay by Stanley E. Fish
18,824 words, approx. 63 pages
In the following essay, Fish detects a unity of style and substance in Burton's frequent digressions and shifts of subject in The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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Critical Essay by Joan Webber
17,295 words, approx. 58 pages
In the essay below, Webber discusses how the “I” persona of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy combines the two distinct modes of life and art by manipulating the reader through an anecdotal and gossip-oriented analysis of sources rather than through a methodical investigation of the facts.
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Critical Essay by Bridget Gellert Lyons
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Lyons, Bridget Gellert. “The Anatomy of Melancholy as Literature.” In Voices of Melancholy: Studies in literary treatments of melancholy in Renaissance England, pp. 113-48. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971. In the excerpt below, Lyons examines the relations of Burton's work to other literary and expository works on melancholy and asserts that “one of the main achievements of the Anatomy as a work of literature is to portray the melancholy mind in action, even while it is occupied...
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