[PDR] As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy

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  AS A LUTE OUT OF TUNE: ROBERT BURTON’S MELANCHOLY

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In 1621 Robert Burton first published his masterpiece /The Anatomy of 
Melancholy/, a vast feat of scholarship examining in encyclopaedic 
detail that most enigmatic of maladies. Noga Arikha explores the book, 
said to be the favorite of both Samuel Johnson and Keats, and places it 
within the context of the humoural theory so popular at the time.**
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