Editing The Anatomy of Melancholy (section)

=== Philip Pullman ===
In April 2005, English author [[Philip Pullman]] published an essay in ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'' about his love for Burton's ''Anatomy''.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news |last=Pullman |first=Philip |date=10 April 2005 |title=Reasons to be cheerful |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3640566/Reasons-to-be-cheerful.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210104194843/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3640566/Reasons-to-be-cheerful.html |archive-date=4 January 2021 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> He argues that the 400-year-old book is worth looking past its convoluted nature:
{{Quote|text="This book is very long. What's more, like the book [[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's sister]] was reading on that famous summer afternoon, it has no pictures or conversation in it. To add to the drawbacks, parts of it are in Latin. And finally, as if that wasn't bad enough, it is founded on totally outdated notions of anatomy, physiology, psychology, cosmology and just about every other -logy there ever was. So what on earth makes it worth reading today? And not only worth reading, but a glorious and intoxicating and endlessly refreshing reward for reading? The main reason is perhaps the least literary. It's that <i>The Anatomy of Melancholy</i> is the revelation of a [[personality]]: a personality so vivid and generous, so humorous, so humane, so tolerant and cranky and wise, so filled with bizarre knowledge and so rich in absurd and touching anecdotes, that an hour in his company is a stimulant to the soul."|author=Philip Pullman|title="Reasons to be cheerful"|source=<i>The Telegraph</i>}}
Pullman has cited it as his favorite book on other occasions and lives near Burton's hometown of [[Oxford]].<ref name=":8">Pullman, Philip (31 August 2008). "Author lists his favorite books". ''[[Oxford Mail]]''.</ref> He claims that "Burton's humanity blows like a gale," saying "his very language sparkles" as he describes medical treatments and scenes from history.<ref name=":7" /> It's listed among the books that influenced his own writing, such as his trilogy ''[[His Dark Materials]].<ref name=":8" />'' 
{{Quote|text="Is the book in any sense a cure for melancholy? Our word "depression" has always seemed to me far too [[genteel]], too decorous for this savage and merciless torment. Anything that can palliate it is worth knowing; and certainly no disorder has ever had so rich, so funny, so subtle and so eccentric an anatomy. We can learn much from his psychology."|author=Philip Pullman|title="Reasons to be cheerful"|source=<i>The Telegraph</i>}}