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Robert Burton
The Bodleian Marks 400 Years of
Melancholy
October 14, 2021
Four hundred years ago, Oxford scholar Robert Burton published what some now consider the ‘grandfather of all self-help manuals,’ The Anatomy of Melancholy.
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