Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Robert Burton's masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy.

[Albert Rolls]

Thank you

"messiesy book ever written" is a good line but off I think. 

This line is better: “One of the maddest and most perfectly paranoid, obsessively organized, etceterative assaults on the feeble human powers of concentration ever attempted.” 
Angus Fletcher 

(The elder, that is, not the history of theater guy at Yale these day, but the Fletcher of Allegory.) 



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