| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1600-1699 | In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book o... | John Gadbury | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, eve... | Arthur | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson opined that] Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy" is a valuable work. It is, perhaps, overloaded with quotation.... | Samuel Johnson | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |