Melancholy [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… only avoided sociability, its vision seemed to expose the hollowness of all attempts at it: the coming together of humankind, it claimed, is pointless, futile, just a way of wasting time on the way to the grave. As Hamlet puts it: ‘I have of … Aristotle to Kristeva (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 39-40. 2 . William Shakespeare, Hamlet, ed. Harold Jenkins (London: Methuen, 1982), Act II, scene ii, ll. p. 295-299, 308, p. 253-254. 3 . James Boswell, Boswell’s Column, ed. … and revised versions up until Burton’s death in 1640. Burton, at the outset of his book, divides melancholy into two kinds, both of them solitary. The first is actually a pleasurable kind, known as ‘White Melancholy’, and so called by the …
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