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Articles by Angus Gowland
The Solitary Mind in the Anatomy of Melancholy
It is a notoriously expansive and digressive book which divides and subdivides its subject matter into a bewildering variety of forms, and many readers have found the central theme of The Anatomy of Melancholy elusive, perhaps deliberately so, or even non-existent. Nevertheless, Robert Burton did provide his readers with an ‘Abstract’.
Four hundred years of melancholy—why Robert Burton’s masterpiece speaks to our pandemic age - Prospect Magazine
A Victorian image of Robert Burton, author of The Anatomy of Melancholy. Credit: Alamy It has become increasingly difficult to ignore our great capacity for experiencing and describing psychological pain. To many observers across the globe, mental illnesses and disorders are now alarmingly prevalent, and talk of crises, unprecedented surges and epidemics has become widespread amongst clinical experts and in the media.
George Steiner: the outsider who changed the cultural landscape of Britain
George Steiner, pictured here in 2013, has died aged 90. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Prospect composite In his 1997 memoir, Errata, George Steiner describes calling on the Oxford don Humphry House shortly before his doctoral viva: “On his Victorian lectern lay the handsomely printed text of my Chancellor’s English Essay Prize. I waited, I ached for some allusion to it. It came when I was already at the door. ‘Ah yes, yes, your pamphlet.
Clive James—a tribute - Prospect Magazine
Like many people of my generation, I first remember seeing Clive James wryly commenting on clips from crazy Japanese television shows—the kind of thing that now goes viral on Twitter. So my teenage self was somewhat surprised to see him in the New Yorker ruminating on the German responsibility for the Holocaust. It was like finding out Terry Wogan was a secret Hegel scholar. But Clive was never one to be pinned down by the artificial divisions of high and low culture.
Stop using the Paralympics as "inspiration porn"—they're elite sports stars - Prospect Magazine
Paralympians are inspiring—because they're Olymp Photo: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa There is an elite sporting competition taking place in South Korea right now.
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