Melancholy: The blue mood, examined

The long literature of sadness — from Burton’s vast Anatomy of Melancholy to the lyric of dejection, the mood that produced some of the finest writing in English.

In this collection

• The Undiscovered Self
• The Moon's Funeral
• The Types
• Communism
• In Memory
• Fashions of Belief
• The Tradition of the Tea-Plant
• Out of the Deep of Fear and Anxiety
• 112 the Marigold
• Love
• To a Vers Librist
• In themselves as Weak as Worms
• Prize Fighter
• The Genealogy of Morals
• The Hardness of the Way
• The Hunters of Men
• Cold tower of the world
• Five Kisses
• The Price of Peace (the Trial as by Fire)
• A Hedonist
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