The View from Minerva's Tower Learning and Imagination of the Anatomy of Melancholy

‘A most weighty and perceptive study...impressive in the exceptional extent of its scholarship throughout, in its learned appraisal of the medieval and renaissance background and the seventeenth-century context of Burton’s principles and procedures, in its appraisals and use of other appraisals, in its analysis of the Burtonian materials for its topics, and in the sustained intelligence and insight of its interpretations; and the documentation is everywhere thorough and precisely accurate.’

Arthur E. Barker, Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature, University of Western Ontario.