Interesting Pynchon Mention

[Dave Monroe]

Recently back in print ...

Burton, Robert.  The Anatomy of Melancholy.
   New York: NYRB Book, 2001 [1621].

http://www.nybooks.com/shop/product?usca_p=t&product_id=2

Intro by William H. Gass.  Can hardly claim to have
read it in its entirety (the NYRB ed.'s 1392 pages,
inc. index), but, among many other things, it's a
great reference volume, for its immediate context (the
English Renaissance) and beyond, one which I've
managed to deploy here myself ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60002&sort=date

But do check out NYRB Books (The New York Review of
Books, er, Books) ...

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/classics

Doing the Lord's work making lost classics available
again ...

--- Steve Maas <tyronemullet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "... the prose masterwork of the heavy-hearted,
> Robert Burton's _The Anatomy of Melancholy_.
> Solomon gives this book far too little homage: It is
> in fact a staggering triumph of education and
> artistry, at once a treatise on the medical,
> historical, philosophical and spiritual aspects of
> melancholy, a pep talk for fellow sufferers and a
> meta-fictional challenge leagues more daunting than
> any Melville or Thomas Pynchon crafted centuries
> later."
> 
> Anyone here ever read Burton?

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