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''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' (Full title ''The Anatomy of appeared in 1621 . At the outset, then, Burton proposes to give us a manner to the subject of Melancholia . Each section piles on ancient and mediæval medical authorities, from Hippocrates , Aristotle and Galen forward, and adds to these ancient examples a great deal of Latin Poetry . Burton defines his subject this way: Melancholy However Burton is unable to prevent his attention from wandering: He opens with a long address titled '' Democritus Junior to the Reader'', in which he confesses his personal predisposition to melancholia. Psychology , Physiology , Astronomy , Astrology , Demonology , Meteorology , and Theology are all pressed into service to elucidate his topic, which is no less than a catalogue of the various sorrows and frustrations that human beings are heir to. Noteworthy sections besides ''Democritus Junior to the Reader'' are his discourses on the melancholy of scholars, the melancholy of lovers, and his counsels as to how one can fall out of love. And in the midst of all of this, he also finds the place to propose his own Utopia. ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' has been admired by many subsequent writers, from Samuel Johnson , Charles Lamb and John Keats (who professed it to be his favourite book) to Stanley Fish and Philip Pullman . EXTERNAL LINKS:
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