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	"Ode on Melancholy"
		Melancholy has her shrine in the temple of delight precisely because melancholy and delight are unseparable.
		The degree of pain that melancholy may cause is implied by the "remedies" or ways to avoid it, oblivion and death (i.e., Lethe and poisons).
		Melancholy is "Veil'd" because it is hidden from us during pleasure, which is generally what we are aware of and are absorbed in.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/cs6/melancholy.html (1241 words)

	II Journal: The History of Melancholy
		As a mood or emotion, the experience of being melancholy or depressed is at the very heart of being human: feeling ``down'' or blue or unhappy, being dispirited, discouraged, disappointed, dejected, despondent, melancholy, depressed, or despairing many aspects of such affective experiences are within the normal range.
		On choosing to focus on melancholy as a clinical condition, we are faced with the issue of whether it is a disease or some other sort of assemblage of signs and symptoms.
		Melancholy, or Sorrow in the Eastern traditions of medicine and philosophy, is the very essence of lived experience.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol2no2/v2n2_The_History_of_Melancholy.html (1753 words)

	Melancholy as an Aesthetic Emotion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is useful and illuminating to retain a distinction between melancholy and depression as well as a distinction between the clinical definition of melancholy and the broader emotion-based use of the term (although there is also overlap between each use of the term).
		Melancholy is an emotion often occasioned by people or places; we feel melancholic about a lover or friend, or a meaningful place in our lives, perhaps somewhere we have once lived.
		The reflective aspect of melancholy often involves the effort of recollection, that is, the reflection necessary for retrieving memories that are faint and sketchy.
	www.contempaesthetics.org /pages/article.php?articleID=214 (6909 words)

	On Melancholy
		Melancholy was a particularly widespread affliction in Elizabethan England; particularly amongst the educated classes.
		Melancholy was very much in vogue in the England of Elizabeth and the early Stuarts, especially among the intellectuals and would-be intellectual.
		Melancholy, indeed, is one of the commonest strains in English writers...
	arts.ucsc.edu /faculty/bierman/Elsinore/melancholy/melIntro.html (704 words)

	Anatomy of Melancholy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is one of the most curious books ever written in (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English, and one of the unlikeliest literary masterpieces ever written.
		And from these melancholy dispositions no man living is free, no Stoick, none so wise, none so happy, none so patient, so generous, so godly, so divine, that can vindicate himself; so well-composed, but more or less, some time or other, he feels the smart of it.
		Melancholy in this sense is the character of Mortality.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anatomy_of_melancholy.htm (484 words)

	Melancholy
		Melancholy resulting from demonic possession might in fact be a punishment bestowed by God via the intermediary of a witch or demon.
		An individual might be predisposed to melancholy because he or she was born under Saturn, and might be at particular risk at particular times of the year.
		Melancholy was not only a corporeal disease, but also a moral condition, and could result from a variety of causes, both natural and supernatural.
	www.geocities.com /a_and_e_uk/Melancholy.htm (4974 words)

	Melancholia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, the post-Elizabethan cult of melancholia is associated with John Dowland, whose motto was Semper Dowland, semper dolens.
		("Always Dowland, always mourning.") The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as a "malcontent," is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Another literary expression of this cultural mood comes from the death-obsessed later works of John Donne.
		But the most extended treatment of the cult of melancholia comes from Robert Burton, whose Anatomy of Melancholy treats the subject from both a literary and a medical perspective.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melancholia (441 words)

	Review by Charles Ganelin of Teresa Scott Soufas' book: Melancholy and the Secular Mind in Spanish Golden Age Literature
		Throughout the preface and five chapters, Soufas cogently undertakes a reexamination of melancholy's importance as reflected in the Catholic, post-Tridentine authors who “engage[d] in a dialectical transvaluation of values, that is, a reexamining and redefining of society and traditional norms that nevertheless does not seek to invalidate those norms or their inversion” (ix).
		She analyzes the scientific and literary transvaluation of melancholy in Cervantes (Chapter 1), religious melancholy in Tirso (Chapter 2), love melancholy in two different manifestations in Lope and Calderón (Chapter 3), the melancholy malcontent in picaresque narrative (Chapter 4), and the melancholy debate as exemplified in the conceptista/culteranista controversy, particularly in Góngora (Chapter 5).
		Though Soufas sees melancholy as a general condition of society and as an implied aspect in depictions of malcontentedness, her argument is refracted somewhat by the marginal character of the “pícaro.” Nevertheless, Soufas suggests that the rogue figure displays melancholic characteristics similar to those witnessed in certain stage characters.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~cervantes/csa/artics92/ganelin.htm (1729 words)

	Search for "melancholy" provided by Poetry Connection
		Melancholy breakfast blue overhead blue underneath the silent egg thinks and the toaster's electrical ear waits the stars are in "that cloud is hid" the elements of disbelief are very strong in the morning(Read full poem)
		Is it a folly, Is it mirth, or melancholy?
		A melanholy face Charles Carville had, But not so melancholy as it seemed, When once you knew him, for his mouth redeemed His insufficient eyes, forever sad: In them there was no life-glimpse, good or bad, Nor joy nor passion in them ever...
	www.poetryconnection.net /search/melancholy (1292 words)

	The Books: Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy by David Awbrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melancholy could be the divine voice that compels Americans to discover themselves, build their communities, and explore their soul."
		Finding Hope in the Age of Melancholy is an original and provocative book about faith, whose jumping-off point is the all-too-familiar experience of depression, or melancholy, as it has been known throughout history.
		Turning to history, and again weaving in his own experiences, he revisits a number of key eras in which epidemics of melancholy were precursors to periods of extraordinary cultural advancement.
	www.twbookmark.com /jrun/books/41/0316038113 (506 words)

	The Rökkr: Hela and Saturnian Melancholy
		Despite this initial negative impression, the dark humour of melancholy came to be embraced by a small group of poets, artists, and occultists.
		The work shows the winged spirit of Melancholy sitting in the pose characteristic of both her, and those afflicted, or blessed, by her: her head resting in her left hand, with her gaze fixed in concentration.
		The sleeping, and starved, dog beside her is indicative of the intensity of her vision, with concerns for the physical world of senses left far behind; melancholy has been described as the sweet sleep of the senses.
	shadowlight.gydja.com /melancholy.html (2529 words)

	WetCanvas! - Melancholy and Creativity
		In the place where I paint I have a photocopy of Durer's Melancholia I to remind me that melancholy, (particularly definitions 1 and 2) is an intrinsic part of the creative process.
		I too believe that melancholy is an intrinsic part of the creative process, and I've often seen it as a time of "laying fallow," before another surge of ideas cajole me to pay attention to them.
		He notes that the undercurrent of depression and general melancholy that tends to plague all creative people (not just artists) is due in part to their phenomenal sensitivity and drive to "make meaning" out of concepts and circumstances that can seem meaningless.
	zoe.artistnation.com /forums/printthread.php?t=291648 (3083 words)

	Melancholy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So, if melancholy was a medical condition connoting an acute and divided sensibility, the total breakdown of body and soul could be prefigured in melancholy and achieved (potentially) in madness.
		While madness or melancholy remove one from community, they give one the opportunity to comment from outside on that same community, inviting those inside to learn a new language with which to speak in.
		The figure for melancholy might be Yorick, whose love (or affected love) for crying leads him to court sadness and indulge his capacity for tears.
	www.engl.virginia.edu /enec981/termpages/melancholy.html (592 words)

	Victorian Melancholy
		Therefore, the men and women who are striving to achieve a perfect society that reflects a past moment of glory are stagnating that progress by inflating the differences inherent in their respective natures, inadvertently perpetuating the Victorian state of melancholy.
		Therefore, common men are stuck in the Victorian state of perpetual melancholy until a poet is determines the direction in which the society is to go and how it is to go about achieving the desired progress.
		He avoids melancholy by not pondering it, delving instead into the actions of the present while hoping for a better existence in the future.
	homepage.mac.com /cfriend/work/enl2/victorian.html (978 words)

	The Anatomy of Melancholy - Robert Burton
		But melancholy is a broad term, a common affliction with many causes, symptoms, and, possibly, cures.
		Melancholy is his springboard, but it is the entire human experience -- so melancholy-tinged -- that is his subject.
		Laurence Sterne carried on the Burtonian tradition, stealing extensively from The Anatomy of Melancholy for his own Tristram Shandy (a theft that was not discovered for decades, as Burton was barely remembered or read at the time).
	complete-review.com /reviews/divphil/burtonr.htm (2523 words)

	Melancholy Quotes & Quotations compiled by GIGA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
		I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.
		Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
	www.giga-usa.com /quotes/topics/melancholy_t001.htm (304 words)

	The Anatomy of Melancholy, v2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		or compounds altering melancholy, with a digression of compounds.
		Reinerus Solenander, in his seventh consultation for a Spanish young gentlewoman, that was so melancholy she abhorred all company, and would not sit at table with her familiar friends, prescribes this physic above the rest, [2888]no good to be done without it.
		Which howsoever I treat of, as proper to the meridian of melancholy, yet nevertheless, that which is here said with him in [2894]Tully, though writ especially for the good of his friends at Tarentum and Sicily, yet it will generally serve [2895]most other diseases, and help them likewise, if it be observed.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books149c/ameltwo.htm (11491 words)

	Depressed? Read Abraham Lincoln's Words
		He was a sad-looking man; his melancholy dripped from him as he walked.
		Additionally, Lincoln's law partner, William Herndon, gives a first hand account of Lincoln's melancholy in his biography of Lincoln entitled "Herndon's Life of Lincoln." Also, Mark E. Neely, Jr., author of "The Abraham Lincoln Encyclopedia" discusses Lincoln's depression within the topic 'Psychology.' There are indications Lincoln took a medication for his hypochondriasis called blue mass.
		This was a commonly prescribed medication in the 19th century for ailments such as apoplexy, worms, tuberculosis, toothaches, constipation, and hypochondriasis.
	home.att.net /~rjnorton/Lincoln84.html (1795 words)

	Melancholy Pleasures
		I came to the conclusion that the Romantic Movement’s influence on the arts was unhealthy because it encouraged artists to develop mental and emotional problems.
		I suppose that the futility of trying to create a beautiful garden in a world where graveyards are vandalized might be classified as a melancholy pleasure.
		I suppose that my garden might induce genuine feelings of melancholy in some people because when one of my cats dies, I plant a tree on their grave.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/garden_design/95996 (989 words)

	Dahib.
		Venusian and Saturnian in nature; indicating a tendency to melancholy.
		Melancholy, studious, recluse, restless and nervous, writer, accumulates miserly fashion, often lives alone but danger of separation and divorce, rapt in some great sorrow, long life.
		Strange and peculiar experiences, many ups and downs, much suffering, loses friends through deception, disappointed ambitions, losses of a Mercurial nature, unfavorable for domestic affairs, terror of death, dies after a lingering illness.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Dabih.html (471 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Anatomy of Melancholy: A Selection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy was the pinnacle of the trend for treatises in the 17th century.
		From time to time, Burton was afflicted by melancholy and he confesses in his introduction (Democritus to the Reader) that he wrote the Anatomy to relieve his own melancholy.
		The work is divided into three main portions: the first defines and describes various kinds of melancholy; the second puts forward various cures; and the third analyses love melancholy and religious melancholy.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1857546504 (924 words)

	Melancholy in Cuernavaca,
		According to Robert Burton in The Anatomy of Melancholy, our souls are hardwired into our various organs: liver, heart, brain, "...as a triangle in a quadrangle." My sister, Jose, my mother's cook, and I are keeping watch over my mother's triangulated soul as it departs.
		And speaking about death, or the Death of Friends: it does not rate, as far as Burton is concerned, as a great cause for melancholy and is dumped into a subsec.
		I turn quickly to the "A Consolatory Digression Containing The Remedies Of All Manners Of Discontents" (which is pretty slim considering the manifold causes) and come to the remedies for the death of friends, lovers, husbands, wifes, children, but no mothers, not even a mention.
	www.albany.edu /offcourse/april99/burton.html (1089 words)

	Great Melancholy Songs :: Scott Granneman
		John Keats defines melancholy in his famous Ode as "the wakeful anguish of the soul".
		Perhaps a bit too menacing to be truly melancholy, and perhaps a touch too bitter as well.
		But underlying it all is melancholy, directed at the self as much as the one he sings about.
	www.granneman.com /personal/music/greatmelancholysongs.htm (829 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Anatomy of Melancholy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is the second volume of the Clarendon edition of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, containing the text and textual apparatus for `The Second Partition'.
		Here is found Burton's remarkable synthesis of cultural geography and climatic influences on temperament in the `Digression of the Ayre' and his long excursion in the consolatio tradition.
		The Anatomy of Melancholy wasn't meant to be read from the first page to the last; I have never met anyone who did that and one would have to be more than a little mad to even try.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0198123302 (1219 words)

	Melancholy Girl (from the "Spring Collection" by CloudEight Stationery, Artwork by Anastasia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Your mail will look just like this demo when you use "Melancholy Girl" in your Outlook Express or Outlook email program, and follow the simple directions on our help page.
		This stationery is based on a painting by Anastasia entitled "Melancholy", and is used with permission.
		The painting "Melancholy" on which this stationery is based, is copyright (c) by Anastasia, and is used with written permission.
	thundercloud.net /stationery/spring/demo-spring-melancholy-girl.htm (113 words)

	Compare the lives of the two central characters in 'The Son's Veto' and 'The melancholy Hussar'. What is the authors ...
		Coursework and Essays: By Subject: Literature: Compare the lives of the two central characters in 'The Son's Veto' and 'The melancholy Hussar'.
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Compare the lives of the two central characters in 'The Son's Veto' and 'The melancholy Hussar'.
		In 'The Melancholy Hussar', The main character, Phyllis Grove, Has 3 dominant males in her life.
	www.coursework.info /i/22947.html (487 words)

	Keats, John: Ode on Melancholy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Keats urges his reader not to respond to melancholy by committing suicide.
		Likewise, if your mistress is angry with you, look into her eyes and feast on their ephemeral beauty.
		Melancholy is not the moment for death, but an opportunity for a fine experience.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/keats270-des-.html (143 words)

	Melancholy Pleasures
		I do recall that you had said that you had blank headstones in your garden, but I didn't realize that they were in deep shade.
		I wouldn't call that melancholy though - we'd both love to be able to stay in a place that we have loved so much.
		And since we can be buried in our own yards should we wish to - so I also like to think that I have my stone ready, absorbing years of happy gardening times before it realizes its ultimate purpose.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/garden_design/84476/707464 (620 words)

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