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=== John Milton === English poet [[John Milton]] used ''Anatomy'' as the basis for his poem about melancholy, "[[Il Penseroso|Il Penseroso"]] ("the thinker").<ref>{{Cite web |title=Il Penseroso: Introduction |url=https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/penseroso/intro.shtml |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=milton.host.dartmouth.edu}}</ref> It was most likely composed around ten years after the first edition was published.<ref>Kerrigan, William; Rumrich, John; and Fallon, Stephen (eds.) ''The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton''. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.</ref> [[Thomas Warton]] described Milton as "an attentive reader of Burton's book."<ref name=":4" /> Several of his works, including the epic poem ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', exhibit parallels to ''Anatomy.'' This includes the "golden chain" attached to "this pendant world,"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Milton |first=John |title=Paradise Lost |year=1667 |at=1051-1053}}</ref> as well as descriptions of [[Demon|demons]] and theories of [[predestination]]. Milton scholar George Wesley Whiting writes that "in addition to agreeing upon the fundamental points of theology, demonology, cosmography and morality, Burton and Milton condemn war and military glory."<ref>{{Cite book |last=george wesley whiting |url=https://archive.org/details/miltonsliterarym0000geor |title=milton's literary milieu |date=1939 |publisher=the university of north carolina press |others=Internet Archive}}</ref> "Il Penseroso" (and its companion poem "[[L'Allegro]]") contrasts melancholy with [[Happiness|mirth]] in a similar way to Burton's distinction between "bad" melancholy and "good" melancholy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Grace |first=William J. |date=1955 |title=Notes on Robert Burton and John Milton |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4173147?seq=2 |journal=Studies in Philology |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=578β591 |issn=0039-3738}}</ref>
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