'An Essay on Melancholia: "The Muse of Bile" - Perspectives through Time', in Forms and Possibilities. Wollongong: Wirripang (2011). (original) (raw)

2011, Forms and Possibilities

* “an impressive survey” - Yuriko Saito, Ph.D., Editor, Contemporary Aesthetics. Revised and expanded 2011 version of an article on the subject of "Melancholia" [in the field of Aesthetics / Philosophy of Art] surveying the thoughts of leading philosophers, writers, artists, psychologists, and other scholars, from Classical times through to the Renaissance, and then focussing on the Romantic period. Little, Jonathan D., 'An Essay on Melancholia: "The Muse of Bile" (Mental Illness or Vital Creative Humour?) - Perspectives through Time; An Appreciation and A Defence of the Artist’s Temperament' , in Forms and Possibilities: Selected Verse (Wollongong, NSW, Australia: Wirripang, 2011) ISBN 978187682923 IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN TWO VERSIONS (AND THE LATER, EXPANDED VERSION, IS HERE ATTACHED). The abbreviated version of this article (part-illustrated) was first published as ‘Melancholia: Mental Illness or Vital Creative Humour?’, in Udolpho, Vol.35 (Winter, 1998), 8-13 [Chislehurst, Kent: Gargoyle's Head Press] ISSN 1350-7796. SEE ALSO: https://www.academia.edu/38455313/Melancholia\_Mental\_Illness\_or\_Vital\_Creative\_Humour\_Udolpho\_vol.35\_Winter\_1998\_8-13 It was then subsequently published, in full, as an ‘Essay’ appended to the author’s Forms and Possibilities: Selected Verse (Wollongong, NSW, Australia: Wirripang, 2011) ISBN 978187682923 KEYWORDS: Anatomy of Melancholy, Melancholy, Melancholia, Dame Melancholy, Malincholia, Melancholia atra bilis, Galen, Four Temperaments, sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic, Albrecht Durer, Melencolia I, Agrippa von Nettesheim, James Thomson, Sir Philip Sidney, Artist's Melancholy, Robert Burton, Samuel Johnson, H B Lee, Marcel Proust, Paul Verlaine, Charles Baudelaire, John Milton, Paradise Lost, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Charles Lamb, Denis Diderot, Plato, Aristotle, Marsilio Ficino, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hood, Francisco Goya, Saturn, Saturn and Melancholy, Saturn Devouring His Son, Kronos, Jean Cocteau, Aleister Crowley, Florentine Neo-Platonists, Thomas Gray, John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, William Collins, City of Dreadful Night, John Keats, John Fowles, artist's temperament, furor divinus, furor melancholicus, mental derangement, divine frenzy, defence of the artist, "Jonathan David Little"