| Reviews |
| - 'This penultimate tome of a six-volume edition of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
joins its predecessors in a series variously acclaimed as being "magisterial", "splendid", "lucid", and "magnificent". Such esteem has followed the series since the first volume's publication in 1989; this fifth one unquestionably merits the same praise
' - Sixteenth Century Journal, XXXII/2
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| Description | | - For the first time identifies Burton's vast array of sources and explains his allusions
| | This, the fifth volume of the Clarendon Press edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, contains commentary on the text from Partition 1, Section 2, Member 4, Subsection 1 until the end of Part. 1, and on the whole of the second Partition. It thus concludes Burton's account of the causes, the symptoms, and the prognosis of melancholy, and his examination of the remedies for the disease
both spiritual and medical. As before, the aim of the commentary is to aid the reader to understand Burton's meaning (to which end all the passages in Latin are translated) and to identify the sources of his many quotations from and references to other authors. The third and last volume of the commentary, and of the edition, will contains a full Bibliography of these authors and brief biographical
notes on them. |
| Contents |
Abbreviations
COMMENTARY:
Partition 1, section 2, member 4, subsection 1 to the end of Partition 1
Partition 2 [complete]
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Robert Burton
Edited by J. B. Bamborough, Linacre College, Oxford and
Martin Dodsworth, Professor of English Literature, Royal Holloway & Bedford New College
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