Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… and so called by the poet Thomas Gray in a letter of 1742. ‘When I go musing all alone,’ writes Burton in ‘The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy’, ‘ Thinking of divers things fore-known When I build castles in the air, Void of sorrow … ‘ 4 4 . Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, ed. Holbrook Jackson (New York: New York Review of Books, 2001), ‘The Author’s Abstract of Melancholy’, p. 11. Part of what is identified here is a strongly self-indulgent streak in … griefs to this are jolly, None so sour as melancholy. ‘ (Burton 11) ‘ Tis my sole plague to be alone ‘ , declares the ‘Author’ as he reaches the end of the ‘Abstract’: ‘I am a beast, a monster grown, /I will no light nor company, /I find it …
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