A lengthy introduction, democritus junior to the reader, is a. After over one hundred pages of introduction, what parting thoughts does burton have for us before embarking on the real book. Philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up is a book by. A lengthy introduction, democritus junior to the reader, is a satirical catalog of the follies of. Hot free books the anatomy of melancholy democritus. Adding further fuel to the rumor of his suicide is the remarkable accuracy of his own astrological prediction of the time of his. At last we come to the end of democritus junior to the reader. In three maine partitions with their several sections, members, and subsections.
The work, published under the pseudonym democritus junior in 1621, was quite popular. The anatomy of melancholy penny wise, pound foolish. Democritus, you will recall, was a greek philosopher of the 5th century bc who developed the idea of atoms forming the basis of the universe. Burtons book has no special theme or thesis, but into it he poured his immense sum of learning. Democritus did not believe in god or the gods, believing the world to be governed entirely by natural laws. Full text of the anatomy of melancholy, by democritus iunior see other formats.
Democritus regarded the freedom of the individual as more important than the needs of the state. In his preliminary democritus junior to the reader, the author announces that he will tell the gentle reader about the original. Read the anatomy of melancholy democritus junior for free fulltext. It is a book about res things as they are and not verba empty rhetoric, and yet. I have overshot myself, i have spoken foolishly, rashly, unadvisedly, absurdly, i have anatomized mine own folly. He adopted the pseudonym, democritus junior, after the ancient. With all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostickes, and several cures of it. The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it by junior, democritus and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Milton did not disdain to build two of his finest poems on it. Go forth my book into the open day happy, if made so by its garish eye. His selfstyled anatomy of the causes of melancholy is both ponderous and wittyquite in tune with burtons styling himself as democritus junior. Democritus junior and the musings of melancholy brewminate.
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