Robert Burton

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The Anatomy of Love (eBook, ePUB)

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Dryness, paleness, waking, sighing, despair, frenzy, death: love's repercussions can be dire indeed. Perhaps that is why Robert Burton devoted the largest part of his monumental 17th-century psychological work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, to this supreme passion. Edited to offer the modern reader easier access to this classic text, this abridged version preserves all the fantastic variety of the original, as Burton knits together stories and quotations drawn from millennia of European literature in order to understand love's causes, consequences, and cures.From simple love, honest, pleasant and profitable, to the terrible sequels of jealousy, the grim prognostics for those fallen into love-melancholy, and the dangers of bawds and magic philters, Burton explores every branch and tributary of the great river which can bring us together - or toss us onto a desolate shore. We encounter gods and goddesses, ancient kings and queens, lascivious monks and pure-hearted shepherds, marriages happy and unhappy, allurements natural and unnatural, and, most importantly, the cure. Intricate yet commonsensical, learned yet earthy, and twinkling throughout with ironic warmth, Burton's masterpiece speaks to the deepest concerns of the human heart as well today as it did four centuries ago.

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Robert Burton (1577-1640) was born to a family of landed gentry in Leicestershire and matriculated at Oxford at the age of 15. Despite attempts to leave the university and build a literary or ecclesiastical career in the outside world, he remained there for the rest of his life, and was eventually appointed librarian of Christ Church College. Inspired by his own struggle with melancholy, Burton began research into the subject, eventually amassing the collection of musings and quotations that would become The Anatomy of Melancholy. Widely praised as a pioneering psychological treatise and authoritative compendium of early modern learning, in the centuries since its first publication it has been celebrated and ransacked for its riches by readers from Samuel Johnson, John Keats, and Laurence Sterne to Northrop Frye, Phillip Pullman and Nick Cave. First published in 1621, the work was immensely popular, and was expanded and reprinted five times over the course of Burton's life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pushkin Press Classics
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805333340
• Artikelnr.: 74280293