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"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse withhis friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."
- Confucius
(551 BC - 479 BC),
The Confucian Analects
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 Format: Paperback, 547 pages
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Inc., The
ISBN: 0940322668
Release Date: Jan 2, 1994
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One of the major documents of modern European civilization, 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.
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A classic of English literature, this eccentric, allusive, beautifully written 17th-century compendium of legend and lore on melancholy is also a psychologically acute account of depression, as caused by everything from love to religion
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All I can say is that most modern books weary me, but Burton never does... His writing is like talk, learned but earthy, and once he starts, he is hard to stop... That he was a humorist in our sense of the word we need no biographical facts to attest: The Anatomy of Melancholy is, by a magnificent and somehow very English irony, one of the great comic works of the world. —Anthony Burgess
One of the maddest and most perfectly paranoid, obsessively organized, etceterative assaults on the feeble human powers of concentration ever attempted. —Angus Fletcher
| |  | | | | Introduction | vii | | Introduction to the 1932 Edition | xvii | | Note on the Text | xxx | | The Anatomy of Melancholy | | | Democritus Junior to His Book | 3 | | The Argument of the Frontispiece | 7 | | The Author's Abstract of Melancholy | 11 | | Democritus Junior to the Reader | 15 | | To the Reader who Employs His Leisure Ill | 124 | | The First Partition | | | The Synopsis of the First Partition | 126 | | Section 1. | Of Diseases in General, and of Melancholy; with a Digression of Anatomy | 130 | | Section 2. | Causes of Melancholy; with a Digression of Spirits | 177 | | Section 3. | Symptoms of Melancholy | 382 | | Section 4. | Prognostics of Melancholy | 429 | | Notes | 441 | | The Second Partition | | | The Synopsis of the Second Partition | 1 | | Section 1. | Cure of Melancholy in General | 5 | | Section 2. | Diet, etc., Rectified; with a Digression of Air | 21 | | Section 3. | A Digression of Remedies against Discontents | 126 | | Section 4. | Medicinal and Chirurgical Remedies | 207 | | Section 5. | Particular Cures | 235 | | Notes | 262 | | The Third Partition | | | The Synopsis of the Third Partition | 1 | | Section 1. | Love and Its Objects | 3 | | Section 2. | Love-Melancholy | 40 | | Section 3. | Jealousy | 257 | | Section 4. | Religious Melancholy | 311 | | Notes | 433 | | Glossary | 505 | | Index | 521 |
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