The Anatomy of Melancholy

This article is about the book by Robert Burton. For the album by Paradise Lost, see The Anatomy of Melancholy (album).
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Allegorical frontispiece to the 1628 third edition, engraved by Christian Le Blon
AuthorRobert Burton
LanguageEarly Modern English
GenreMedicine, philosophy
Publication date
1621, 1624, 1628, 1632, 1638, and 1651
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
616.89
LC ClassPR2223 .A1

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,[1] but republished five more times over the next seventeen years with massive alterations and expansions.

  1. ^ Edwards, M. (2010). "Mad world: Robert Burton's the Anatomy of Melancholy". Brain. 133 (11): 3480–3482. doi:10.1093/brain/awq282.