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Anatomy of Melancholy

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Anatomy of Melancholy
lists causes, symptoms, and characteristics of melancholy. [Br. Lit.: Anatomy of Melancholy]


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A The earliest written record of the phrase being used is Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy of 1621, in the form "Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop".
In The Worlds of Melancholy: Robert Burton in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Angus Gowland submerges The Anatomy of Melancholy in an expansive range of traditions and texts, putting Burton into conversation with neo-Galenic physicians, Aristotelian philosophers, Paracelsians, Calvinist preachers, Arminian divines, Jacobean political theorists, and Neoplatonic occultists, to name just a few points of contact.
Ambitious works - the King James Bible, Ben Jonson's writings, Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy - laid out their topics in emblematic form.
 
 
 
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