J. B. Bamborough

The Little World of Man

Martin Dodsworth

Commentary up to part. 1, sect. 2, memb. 3, subs. 15, 'Misery of Schollers'

Robert Burton's the Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton

This is the fifth volume of the Clarendon edition of the Anatomy of Melancholy. It contains commentary on the text up to the end of the second partition thus concluding Burton's account of the causes, symptoms and prognosis of melancholy.

Commentary from part. 1, sect. 2, memb. 4, subs. 1 to the end of the second partition

Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy

This is the fourth volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the first of three volumes of Commentary. It contains commentary on the text up to p. 327 of volume one - i.e. The Argument of the Frontispeice, Democritus to the Reader, and Partition 1 as far as the end of Section 2, Member 3, Subsection 15: 'Misery of Schollers'. In his study of morbid psychology as it was understood in his day, Burton cites many other writers. No previous edition has identified all of these or verified all his quotations. In addition to explanatory notes and translations of all the passages in Latin, this edition attempts to locate all Burton's sources in the actual books he himself owned or to which he probably had access.

J. B. Bamborough

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