The complete melancholick. Being a sequence of found, composite, and composed poems, based largely upon Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.

by Lewis Turco

'Everything you need to know to create and enact that choice, impenetrable melancholy that until now you've only toyed with' (Granary Books). Illustrated with a hand colored woodcut, 'Melancholy,' from the Augsburg Calendar (ca 1480).

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1985

About the author

Lewis Putnam Turco was an American poet, teacher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Turco was an advocate for Formalist poetry (or New Formalism) in the United States.