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Portrait of Robert Burton by Gilbert Jackson, 1635. Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English author and fellow of Oxford University, known for his encyclopedic The Anatomy of Melancholy.. Born in 1577 to a comfortably well-off family of the landed gentry, Burton attended two grammar schools and matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1593, age 15.
Robert Burton (born February 8, 1577, Lindley, Leicestershire, England—died January 25, 1640, Oxford) was an English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman whose Anatomy of Melancholy is a masterpiece of style and a valuable index to the philosophical and psychological ideas of the time.. Burton was educated at Oxford, elected a student (life fellow) of Christ Church (one of the colleges of ...
Oct 5, 2010 · Robert Burton’s tomb in Christ Church, Oxford, bears an enigmatic Latin inscription suggesting that ‘Melancholy gave life and death’ to its occupant. Histo
The Anatomy of Melancholy (full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it.In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up) is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621, but republished five more times over the ...
Anatomy of Melancholy, The, exposition by Robert Burton, published in 1621 and expanded and altered in five subsequent editions (1624, 1628, 1632, 1638, 1651/52). In the first part of the treatise, Burton defines the “inbred malady” of melancholy, discusses its causes, and sets down the symptoms.
Few works of literature from the English Renaissance have posed problems of interpretation to modern readers in such acute form as Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (first edition, 1621). In the later twentieth century, since Northrop Frye's influential classification of the Anatomy as a type of ‘Menippean satire’ in his Anatomy of Criticism (1957), and especially since Stanley ...
Feb 9, 2024 · Robert Burton, credited as Democritus Junior. Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English writer and scholar at Oxford University (at Christ Church), known chiefly for writing The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Jan 18, 2022 · Epochs before modern neuroscience came to locate the crucible of consciousness in the body, centuries before William James proffered his pioneering theory of how our bodies affect our emotions, Robert Burton (February 8, 1577–January 25, 1640) took up these questions in his 1621 tome The Anatomy of Melancholy (public library | public domain), observing that “there is almost no part of the ...
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Apr 30, 2001 · Robert Burton (1577-1640) was elected a student of Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1599 and took his B.D. in 1614. He served as a vicar in Oxford and then as the rector of Seagrave. The Anatomy of Melancholy appeared in five editions during the author’s lifetime and has been reprinted countless times since. William H. Gass (b. 1924) is an essayist, novelist, and literary critic.
May 14, 2018 · Robert Burton >The English scholar and clergyman Robert Burton (1577-1640) wrote "The >Anatomy of Melancholy," an analysis of the symptoms, causes, and cures of >the melancholic temperament. Robert Burton was born at Lindley, Leicestershire, on Feb. 8, 1577.
