...Robert M. Browne Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 ROBERT BURTON AND THE NEW COSMOLOGY By ROBERTM. BROWNE On some forty of the four hundred slightly elliptical circles it has described about the sun, Christ Church College carried...

...William R. Mueller © 1954 University of Washington 1954 ROBERT BURTON’S “SATYRICALL PREFACE” By WILLIAMR. MUELLER Robert Burton’s “Satyricall Preface,” his “Democritus Junior to the Reader,” has an even more important function than that of intro...

...Stacy Burton © 2000 University of Washington 2000 04-Burton 10/3/00 9:45 AM Page 519 Paradoxical Relations: Bakhtin and Modernism Stacy Burton The speaking subjects of high, proclamatory genres—of priests, prophets...

... of Disorder in the “Anatomy ofiMelan- choly.” By KUTH A. Fox. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1976. xiv + 282 pp. $10.00. Just in time for the four hundredth anniversary of Robert Burton’s birth, Kuth Fox has written the most substantial treatment ever...

... was pointing toward the twentieth century, toward Freudian psychology ? Hardly. It is more precise to say that he was looking backwards, to the seventeenth cen- tury, to Robert Burton, and to Anatomy of Melancholy, “the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than...

... the Aristotelian rule of “not too much” and explains that, as age overtakes the mortal, now that it must, . . . in thy blood will reigne A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The Balme of Life.’ Burton’s...

... assumption that if it is not form then it is formlessness that is the Anatomy’s essence. As a result, her often perceptive reading of the Preface is marred by some distortions and inconsistencies. She refers, for instance, to “the fact that Burton does not speak consistently or primarily...

...Helen A. Kaufman Elizabeth Burton. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. Pp. 276. $3.95. Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 184 Reviews seems to be a return to orthodoxy or a connivance at moral anarchy? Were the tendencies all too...

... that the formulation focuses the prime differ- ence between his Anatomy and the one I read. I do not believe that 4 I4 SEVENTEENTH-CENTU KY L I TEliATURE Burton imagined readers so helplessly his victims as Fish pretends. The notion of the Anatomy as in part a comic performance...

...-319. 2 See especially S. Blaine Ewing, Burtonian Melancholy in the Plays of John Ford (Princeton, 1940), passim; G. F. Sensabaugh, “Burton’s Influence on Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy,” SP, XXXIII, 545-71 ; idem., “Ford’s Tragedy of Love-Melancholy,” Englisclze Studietz, Band 73, Heft 2...

.... Partly to appease her, he accepts Mr. Burton’s offer to become a director of a joint-stock bank. Since Burton and his manager, Mr. Golden, withdraw from the board just before the bank collapses, the press accuses Drummond alone of fraud, driving him to attempt suicide. His apparent self...

... examples, chosen more or less at random, will perhaps serve to illustrate the character of the book. In her description of the homes of the nobles and the rich gentry Miss Burton tells us that the galleries were far more than a lavish display of riches. They were Renaissance “rumpus rooms...

... of the an- thology. In the introduction to the first Folger Shakespeare Library facsimile of The Passionate Pilgrim (1939), Dr. Joseph Quincy Adams demonstrated conclusively that certain poems in the Folger’s Burton copy of the work constitute a fragment of the first edition, probably printed early...

... that certain poems in the Folger’s Burton copy of the work constitute a fragment of the first edition, probably printed early in 1599 and hitherto not certainly identified; and that the remaining poems in the Burton copy and all copies of the 1599 octavo hitherto called the “first” edition...

... Sensabaugh has pro- duced an elaborate justification of the “modernism” perceived by many critics in Ford’s work. Sensabaugh analyzes the character of the Duke as a clinical picture of jealousy drawn from Burton, who certainly did influence Ford in the presentation of many of his charac- ters...

.... Because Robert Burton wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, a scholar of Renaissance melancholy simply must have something to say about him, but Trevor’s chapter on Burton strikes me as the weakest part of the book. Trevor has plenty of ideas about Burton, but many of them remain undeveloped...

... shied away from becomes, for Donne, a form of consolation. Because Robert Burton wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, a scholar of Renaissance melancholy simply must have something to say about him, but Trevor’s chapter on Burton strikes me as the weakest part of the book. Trevor has plenty...

... Burton wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, a scholar of Renaissance melancholy simply must have something to say about him, but Trevor’s chapter on Burton strikes me as the weakest part of the book. Trevor has plenty of ideas about Burton, but many of them remain undeveloped: for instance...

... consistent with Christianity. The materialism that Spenser shied away from becomes, for Donne, a form of consolation. Because Robert Burton wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, a scholar of Renaissance melancholy simply must have something to say about him, but Trevor’s chapter on Burton strikes me...

... consistent with Christianity. The materialism that Spenser shied away from becomes, for Donne, a form of consolation. Because Robert Burton wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy, a scholar of Renaissance melancholy simply must have something to say about him, but Trevor’s chapter on Burton strikes me...