Editing The Anatomy of Melancholy (section)

=== John Keats ===
The [[Romanticism|Romantic]] English poet [[John Keats]] considered ''The Anatomy of Melancholy'' his favorite book.<ref>{{Citation |last=White |first=Robert |title=Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820) |date=2022-03-24 |work=Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy |url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781474480475/html?lang=en |access-date=2025-05-01 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |language=en |doi=10.1515/9781474480475/html?lang=en |isbn=978-1-4744-8047-5}}</ref> Keats was a Romanticist with poetic views of the human body and emotions, as well as a [[surgeon]] trained in medicine and physiology. [[Literary criticism|Literary scholar]] Robert White argues that this duality made Keats unique among Burton's 19th-century audience: "Keats was the only one to have a professional foot in both fields and could read it as both a poet, and as a doctor professionally aware of its historical medical context."<ref name=":4" /> He also suffered from [[Major depressive episode|depressive episodes]] for much of his life, saying in an 1817 letter that "I scarcely remember counting upon any happiness."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Grogan |first=Suzie |date=2015-09-28 |title='Moods of my own Mind': Keats, melancholy, and mental health |url=https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2015/09/28/moods-of-my-own-mind-keats-melancholy-and-mental-health/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Wordsworth Grasmere |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Wayback Machine |url=https://www.artlit.info/pdfs/Keatsian-Anatomy-Melancholy.pdf |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231117042039/https://www.artlit.info/pdfs/Keatsian-Anatomy-Melancholy.pdf |archive-date=2023-11-17 |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=www.artlit.info}}</ref>

During his highly productive period of 1819, Keats read and reread Burton's ''Anatomy.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=R. S. White, Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820) |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/epdf/10.3366/rom.2024.0635 |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=www.euppublishing.com |language=en |doi=10.3366/rom.2024.0635}}</ref> He owned a copy of the 11th edition (1813), which he heavily annotated. He put [[Exclamation mark|exclamation marks]] next to passages about solutions for heartache and underlined the phrase "The last and best Cure of Love-Melancholy, is to let them have their Desire."<ref name=":4" /> On the blank page at the end of the book Keats created his own [[Index (publishing)|index]] of passages he liked; these were mostly love stories or descriptions of [[Tyrant|tyrants]].<ref name=":4" /> One of his marked sections of ''Anatomy'' told the story of star-crossed Corinthian lovers [[Lamia|Lycius and Lamia]] — he later adapted Burton's retelling of the tale into his 1819 poem "[[Lamia (poem)|Lamia]]."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keats |first=John |title=Lamia |url=https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2490/pg2490-images.html |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Project Gutenberg |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lamia {{!}} Romanticism, Ode, Mythology {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lamia-poem-by-Keats |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> 

The final book Keats published during his lifetime, ''Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems'' (1820), is influenced throughout by ''Anatomy'', which was "the book which has been his companion during 1819."<ref name=":4" /> His poem "[[Ode on Melancholy]]" also heavily incorporates themes from ''Anatomy.''<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dalli |first=Elise |date=2016-05-15 |title=Ode on Melancholy by John Keats |url=https://poemanalysis.com/john-keats/ode-on-melancholy/ |access-date=2025-05-01 |website=Poem Analysis |language=en-US}}</ref>