("Always Dowland, always mourning.") The melancholy man, known to contemporaries as a "malcontent," is epitomized by Shakespeare's Prince Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane." Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectively, contain extensive meditations on death.
He expanded his study to survey burial and funerary customs, ancient and current, and published it as Hydriotaphia or Urn Burial (1658).
Sky Burial | urn | Grave (burial) | Urn | Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial | Burial Hill | burial ground | URN (University Radio Nottingham) | The Burial of the Sardine | The Burial of the Count of Orgaz | The ''Burial of Phocion | Sky burial | Setauket Presbyterian Church and Burial Ground | Roger Malvin's Burial | Ode on a Grecian Urn | Langi (burial) | Greenhaven Woodland Burial Ground | Dilmun Burial Mounds | burial vault (tomb) | Burial vault | burial vault |
Some sentences of the 5th chapter were cited by Edgar Allan Poe at the beginning of The Murders in the Rue Morgue: "What Song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling Questions are not beyond all conjecture."