The Robert Burton Page

( 1577 - 1640 )

Major Work
The Anatomy of Melancholy ( Enlarged and revised in various printings from 1621 - 1638 and after ). Edited by Floyd Dell and Paul Jordan-Smith.Farrar and Rinehart, 1927. Reprinted by Tudor, 1955.

About Burton
Lawrence Babb, Sanity in Bedlam: A Study of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. Michigan State, 1959.
Anatomy of Melacholy Page
Overview of Burton's Anatomy

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