...inelegant; wonderfully so, considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. 'Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the...Ireland, and archly remarked, there had been some good Iriah writers, and that one Irishman might at least aspire to be equal to another. He had great compassion...

...James Boswell Life of Samuel ¡ohnson ( 1 79 1 ) 26 October 1769 6 Burton's Anatomy oj ' Melanc holy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. James Bosweli Life of Samuel /о/ш.чоп ( 1 79 1 ) 1 770 7 Want of tenderness, he always alleged,...

...left Birmingham. Neither of us knows anything about Johnson, except that The Anatomy of Melancholy 'was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wanted to rise . . .' We crossed the River Trent at Burton, where we stayed the night...

...had he known that Samuel Johnson, himself a depressive, turned to the Anatomy for consolation - it was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise. The number of papers published about depression is currently more than 3,000 every year, so I have...

...rope-dancing, Johnson recommended reading Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (Boswell 1979:690). Because it was the only book "that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise" (Boswell:438), we may assume that, for Johnson, reading about melancholy was one of the methods he...

...prevent insanity from burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, a book he greatly admired, saying once that it "was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise." 47 In writing to Boswell about Boswell's melancholy, Johnson says, "The great direction which Burton...

...fascinate Johnson. Boswell records Maxwell's observation that "Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy' . . . was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise," along with Johnson's own evaluation of the work: "Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy' is a valuable work....

...themselves. Samuel Johnson, for example, was an admirer of Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, asserting it "was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise."11 Increasing interest in melancholy is not, however, evidence of an increase in the prevalence...

...today a nervous breakdown. Johnson studied Burton well; he famously said that The Anatomy of Melancholy "was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wanted to rise." As he was a notorious lie-a-bed, this was a literary achievement indeed....