Autor/-in: Robert Burton

Robert Burton. (1577-1640) was elected a student of Christ Church College, Oxford, in 1599 and took his B. D. in 1614. He served as a vicar in Oxford and then as the rector of Seagrave. The Anatomy of Melancholy. appeared in five editions during the author’s lifetime and has been reprinted countless times since. William H. Gass. (b. 1924) is an essayist, novelist, and literary critic. He grew up in Ohio and is a former professor of philosophy at Washington University. Among his books are six works of fiction and nine books of nonfiction, including On Being Blue. (1976; published as an NYRB Classic), Tests of Time. (2002), A Temple of Texts. (2006), and Life Sentences. (2012). Gass lives with his wife, the architect Mary Gass, in St. Louis.