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The Life of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint)

Author : Edward Verrall Lucas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483873483
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Verrall Lucas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Charles Lamb It has been my aim to collect and fuse into a single narrative the sum of this scattered information. As in carrying out that task I have tried as far as possible to keep the story of Lamb's life in his own and his sister's words and in those of their con temporaries, my part will be found to be less that of author than of stage-manager. Thanks to the good sense of the Lambs' friends in preserving their letters, and to Lamb's own inveterate habit of autobiography the more my character comes to be known, he wrote, the less will my veracity come to be suspected the task has not been a very difficult one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Life of Charles Lamb, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Author : E. V. Lucas
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265331903
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Charles Lamb, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by E. V. Lucas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Charles Lamb, Vol. 1 of 2 In the present edition I have corrected many slips, and have improved the text in a variety of ways. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Beauty and the Beast

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Beast written by Charles Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charles Lamb

Author : Barry Cornwall
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332897011
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Charles Lamb written by Barry Cornwall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles Lamb: A Memoir The biography of charles lamb lies within a narrow compass. It comprehends only few events. His birth and parentage, and domestic sorrows; his acquaintance with remarkable men; his thoughts and habits; and his migrations from one home to another; constitute the sum and substance of his almost uneventful history. It is a history with one event, predominant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Memoirs of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint)

Author : Thomas Noon Talfourd
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780259398493
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Noon Talfourd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Charles Lamb Since those days, what may be called the Lamb litera ture, in the shape of criticisms, collections, lives, &c., has increased to large proportions. So diligent has been the exertion of explorers, that some pieces, thought to have disappeared, or to be apocryphal, have been recovered. Much ingenuity and labour have been expended in this interesting pursuit; one long lost copy of the Poetry for Children was actually unearthed in some distant colony to great rejoicing. A few lines, quoted by Elia at the end of one of his essays, described a boy snatching a fearful joy from reading at a stall. This he quoted as the work of a poet of the day, but a critic sagaciously suggested that it was one of his favourite artful devices for veiling the authorship. It was in fact his sister's composition. Scattered little poems were found in a collection issued by the schoolmaster Mylius, and the indefatigable Mr Richard Herne Shepherd, who has written a useful bibliography of Lamb, contrived to bring together these fragments. The poetry for children, thus recovered, was reprinted for the curious amateur. During these latter years, however, yet another, and even, I think, a third copy, has turned up, which has been sold at auction for an enormous price. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint)

Author : Thomas Craddock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282011741
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Craddock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles Lamb Pression of his life and character, already formed. He has been dead more than thirty years, and such a period commonly exhausts all that is valuable in the recollections of the associates of an important man, and all that is worth publishing of his remains. We are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Charles Lamb

Author : Alfred Ainger
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010119746
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Charles Lamb written by Alfred Ainger and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Charles Lamb

Author : Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484765596
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Charles Lamb written by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles Lamb: His Friends, His Haunts, and His Books Talfourd's Life.' To that work it may, therefore, be found a useful supplement: until, at least, the work - upon which Mr. Procter is known to be engaged - shall make its appearance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333757182
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb, Vol. 5 Lear, King Of Britain, had three daughters: Goneril, wife to the Duke of Albany; Regan, wife to the Duke Of Cornwall; and Cordelia, a young maid, for whose love the King of France and Duke of Burgundy were joint suitors, and were at this time making stay for that purpose in the court of Lear. The old king, worn out with age and the fatigues of government, he being more than fourscore years Old, determined to take no further part in State affairs, but to leave the management to younger strengths, that he might have time to prepare for death, which must at no long period ensue. With this Intent he called his three daughters to him, to know from their own lips which of them loved him best, that he might part his kingdom among them in such proportions as their affection for him should seem to deserve. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Charles Lamb

Author : Samuel Levy Bensusan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428756406
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Charles Lamb written by Samuel Levy Bensusan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charles Lamb: His Homes and Haunts IN preparing this simple story of the life and work of Charles Lamb, I have relied upon the best of the biographies and criticisms that have been issued since his death, and have not hesitated to refer to Opinions, recollections, and records published during his life. Among the authors consulted are Edward Moxon, who married Elia's adopted daughter, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Percy Fitzgerald, Canon Ainger, the Right Hon. Augustine Birrell, R. D. Gillman, and E. V. Lucas. I have paid several visits to Elia's country: to Buntingford, where he held his first and only freehold; to Widford, where Mrs. Field is buried; to Blakesware and Edmonton. For some years I lived on the top ﬂoor of Mitre Court Buildings, from which Lamb could see the white sails glide by the bottom of the King's Bench Walks, and in Harcourt Buildings by the side of Crown Office Row in the Temple, where he was born. I have often tried to follow his road to the East India House, to Dalston, Islington, Enfield, Edmonton, and the other haunts he loved or favoured. If this brief and simple record of one of the most lovable of men and writers can add a few names to the ever lengthening list of his admirers, a very real debt will have been partly paid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb, Vol. 3 of 6

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332768639
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb, Vol. 3 of 6 written by Charles Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-23 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb, Vol. 3 of 6: Edited, With Notes and Illustrations Your lines are not to be understood reading on one leg. They are sinuous, and to be won with wrestling. I do assure you in sincerity that no thing you have done has given me greater satis faction. Your Obscurity, where you are dark, which is seldom, is that of too much meaning, not the painful Obscurity which no toil of the reader can dissipate; not the dead vacuum and oundering place in which imagination finds no footing: it is not the dimness of positive darkness, but of distance; and he that reads and not discerns must get a better pair of spectacles. I admire every piece in the collection. I cannot say the first is best: when I do so, the last read rises up in judgment. To your Mother, to your Sister, to Mary dead, they are all weighty with thought and tender with sentiment. Your poetry is like no other. Those cursed dryads and pagan trumperies of modern verse have put me out of conceit of the very name of poetry. Your verses are as good and as wholesome as prose, and I have made a sad blunder if I do not leave you with an impression that your present is rarely. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

The Best Letters of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint)

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666682116
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Best Letters of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb In this edition of the correspondence of Charles Lamb, that of his sister, Mary Lamb, is for the first time included. In it also appear for the first time between seventy and eighty letters, many of them of the highest importance; and it is the first edition to take note in chronological order of those letters printed by other editors that are not available for the present volumes: a step which should, I think, add to the biographical value of the work. In these two volumes I have, after much consideration, placed my notes at the end of each letter, rather than, as in the five preceding volumes, at the end of the book. My reason for doing so was twofold: in the first place, to serve the convenience of the reader, to whom annotation of the correspondence is often a necessity, and not, as in the case of the other writings, a luxury; and in the second place, because by joining the letters with a few words of commentary they can be made practically into a consecutive Life. The self-conscious deliberate construction of Lamb's essays and poems, each a work of art, forbade the introduction of footnotes that might distract the attention from the true matter of the text: hence, in the preceding five volumes, such remarks as the editor had to make will be found sharply separated from the authors part of the book. But here, where Lamb is often writing without premeditation, with a running pen, and writing moreover for a single reader, it seemed to me that the impropriety of interrupting the correspondence by elucidatory comments was so slight as to be almost non-existent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Dramatic Essays of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint)

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267161324
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Dramatic Essays of Charles Lamb (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dramatic Essays of Charles Lamb And you must love him ere to you He Will seem worthy of your love. The Americans loved Lamb, early, as they did Carlyle and Praed, to name two, as dissimilar as may be, of the many British writers who have found their first full appreciation across the Atlantic. Charles Lamb's only acted play met in America a far different fate from that which befell it in England; and I have a notion that his writings were aforetime, and are to-day, more widely read in these United States than in Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lamb's Essays

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334514920
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Lamb's Essays written by Charles Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lamb's Essays: A Biographical Study HE fame of Charles Lamb has increased rather than dimin ished in the fifty-seven years elapsing since his death; and still, as his writings are read and re-read, the personal interest in the man grows stronger. Other writers we are content to know simply as writers; Charles Lamb we must know as a man. If excuse be needed for this volume, it is to be found in this fact. It seemed possible to select and unite such essays as were more directly autobiographical, adding to these a series of annotations, taken largely from the works of Lamb and his contemporaries, and thus to throw, if not new, yet stronger, light on the personal ity of the gentle Elia. Such. In brief, is the plan of the book; and if but one mind gains hereby a truer conception of the depth of that well of English undefyled from which Lamb drew so Copiously, if but one heart is thrilled with a nobler emo tion by contact with the strong life herein revealed, the writer has not failed in her purpose. The essays, with one exception, are copied from magazines in which they first appeared, and many passages omitted in later editions of the essays are replaced. The reasons for omitting these personal references are long since passed; and we cannot afford to lose one word that came fresh and forceful from the author's teeming brain. Corrections and reversions, Lamb always condemned; and all his admirers prefer to read him at first hand, with all his irregularities of spelling and or1g1nalities of diction. The original essays have been reproduced as nearly as possible, with the result, it is hoped, of bringing closer together writer and reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Lamb

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483144095
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Lamb written by Charles Lamb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wit and Wisdom of Charles Lamb: With Anecdotes by His Contemporaries There are few writers in English literature whose works lend themselves more readily to quotation than do those of Charles Lamb. One has through these occasional glimpses vistas of Lamb's mind, heart, and personality. Indeed in his case the three cannot be separated, for his mind was his heart and his person ality was the combination of the two. He was but one person to his friends and to his readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Selected Prose

Author : Charles Lamb
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392924
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Selected Prose written by Charles Lamb and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection brings together the best prose writings of the great early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb, whose shrewd wit and convivial style have endeared him to generations of readers. These pieces include early discussions of Hogarth and Shakespeare; masterly essays written under the pen-name 'Elia' that range over such subjects as drunkenness, witches, dreams, marriage and the joy of roast pig; and letters to Lamb's circle of contemporaries, among them Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Wryly amused by the world, allusive, searching and endlessly inventive, these are the essential works of a master of English prose. In his introduction Adam Phillips discusses how Charles Lamb's tragic life and sainted reputation, caring for his mentally ill sister Mary, belied the quality of his work. This edition also includes a biographical index of Lamb's correspondents. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist best known for his humorous Essays of Elia from which the essay 'A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig' is taken. Lamb enjoyed a rich social life and became part of a group of young writers that included William Hazlitt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge with whom he shared a lifelong friendship. Lamb never achieved the same literary success as his friends but his influence on the English essay form cannot be underestimated and his book, Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets is remembered for popularising the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

Dream-Child

Author : Eric G. Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300262493
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Dream-Child written by Eric G. Wilson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) found inspiration in London’s markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized the city’s literary scene, too, where he was a star wit. He counted among his admirers Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His friends valued in his conversation what distinguished his writing style: a highly original blend of irony, whimsy, and melancholy. Eric G. Wilson captures Lamb’s strange charm in this meticulously researched and engagingly written biography. He demonstrates how Lamb’s humor helped him cope with a life‑defining tragedy: in a fit of madness, his sister Mary murdered their mother. Arranging to care for her himself, Lamb saved her from the gallows. Delightful when sane, Mary became Charles’s muse, and she collaborated with him on children’s books. In exploring Mary’s presence in Charles’s darkly comical essays, Wilson also shows how Lamb reverberates in today’s experimental literature.