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Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy. Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burton attended two grammar schools and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1593, age 15.
Robert Burton was an English author, scholar, and clergyman who wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time. Learn about his life, education, works, and influence on literature and psychology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Overview. On its surface, the book is presented as a medical textbook in which Burton applies his vast and varied learning, in the scholastic manner, to the subject of melancholia (or clinical depression).
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Learn about the life and work of Robert Burton, the author of the first psychiatric encyclopaedia, published in 1621. Explore the history, influence and editions of his seminal text on melancholy and depression.
Oct 5, 2010 · A book review of Robert Burton's 17th-century masterpiece on melancholy, a complex and pre-modern disease. The review explores the medical, literary and historical sources of Burton's vast and erudite work, and its therapeutic and self-therapeutic aims.
- Michael Edwards
- 2010
“BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY, a book once the favourite of the learned and the witty, and a source of surreptitious learning, though written on a regular plan, consists chiefly of quotations: the author has honestly termed it a cento.
Robert Burton's labyrinthine, beguiling, playful masterpiece is his attempt to 'anatomize and cut up' every aspect of the condition of melancholy, from which he had suffered throughout his life.
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