Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Works of Charles Lamb: Critical essays
Author: Charles LambThe Essays of Elia
Author: Charles LambPublisher: London : J.M. Dent & Company ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Company
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Works of Charles Lamb: Critical essays. 1903
Author: Charles LambThe Works of Charles Lamb
Author: The Works of Charles Lamb: Essays and sketches
Author: Charles LambDetached thoughts on books and reading
Author: Charles LambOld China
Author: Charles LambThe Works of Charles Lamb
Author: Charles LambDream-Child
Author: Eric G. WilsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300262493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Author: Charles LambPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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