On Melancholy, by Robert Burton.

This abridgement of the seventeenth-century classic The Anatomy of Melancholy takes readers straight to the heart of Robert Burton's idiosyncratic but humane vision: "Be not solitary, be not idle".

Watch On Melancholy being discussed in four short videos.

Paperback, Hesperus Press, 2013

ISBN: 9781843916222

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