Book · 1638 · Nonfiction

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Name: The Anatomy of Melancholy
Author: Robert Burton

New York Review of Books · 547 pages

★ 7.2 editorial score

Melancholy comes from everything, the Oxford scholar Robert Burton concludes, from diet and air to love and religion. A thousand pages of quotation follow, and his one prescription is not to be idle.

Genre

Philosophy Medicine

Subject

Emotions Melancholy Depression

Time

1638Depicts Scientific Revolution

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