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The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

"I bought when I was 16 years old It's called it's a selection from the anatomy of melancholy which is called the anatomy of love," he says. The book, edited by Daniel George who was a well-known literary figure at the time and published in 1962. "He's as interested in science as he is in sort of long He's interested in everything Absolutely everythingIt's all in the book But he's a great he's aGreat classifier and putting things into categories and making lists and so on."

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