Author:Robert Burton

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Robert Burton (1577–1640)

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English scholar at Oxford University, best known for his classic volume The Anatomy of Melancholy.

Robert Burton

Works

• The Anatomy of Melancholy

Works about Burton

• “Burton, Robert” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Burton, Robert” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Burton, Robert (1577-1640),” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

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