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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume III (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Anatomy of Melancholy: Volume III (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Oxford English Texts
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This is the third and final text volume of the Clarendon edition of
Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. It contains `The Third
Partition', `The Table', edited from 1624-1651 editions, and their
textual apparatus, and an Index of Persons. Also included are three
appendices: `The Conclusion of the Author to the Reader', which
occurs only in the 1621 edition, a list of stop-press corrections
to the 1632 edition, and the edited Synoptic Tables. The Third
Partition is made up of two grand digressions which conclude
Burton's earlier arguments on the causes and cures of melancholy.
In the first digression he anatomizes love melancholy, its kinds,
causes and symptom, and cures. No one up to his time had dealt more
elaborately, or more thoroughly, with the components of love.
Certain sections, `Beauty a Cause', of `Jealousie, his
AEquivocations, Name, Definition, Extent ...' are no less engaging
today than when they were first written. In the second, religious
melancholy, he surveys the aberrations from true religious
commitment which are the cause of this melancholy. To Burton the
divine, no other manifestation of melancholy was as serious as
this, and his words of comfort, consolation, and encouragement, are
a fitting end to his dissection of a disease that all are heir to.
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