Robert Burton (scholar) | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Robert Burton (scholar).

Robert Burton (scholar) | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 2 pages of analysis & critique of Robert Burton (scholar).
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SOURCE: Thrale, Hester Lynch. In Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi), 1776-1809, edited by Katharine C. Balderston, Vol. 1, pp. 536-37. 1942. Reprint. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.

In the following excerpt, Thrale acknowledges the widespread influence of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy on English literature.

What a strange Book is Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning,1 Savage his Speech of Suicide in the Wanderer2 from Page 216. Swift his Tale of the Woman that held water in her Mouth to regain her Husband's Love by Silence—'tis printed in the Tatler;3 Johnson got his Story of the Magnet that detects unchaste Wives4 from the same Farrago, & even Shakespear I believe the Trick put on the Tinker Christopher Sly in the taming of the Shrew.5 See page 277. of Burton.6

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