Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decision making
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Last Essays of Elia
Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decision making
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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Author: Charles LambThe Essays of Elia
Author: Charles Lamb... Select Essays of Elia
Author: Charles LambEverybody's Lamb
Author: Charles LambSelected Prose
Author: Charles LambPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392924
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
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.
Elia
Author: Charles LambThe Works of Charles and Mary Lamb
Author: Charles LambPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
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Author: Charles LambSelected Writings
Author: William HazlittPublisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780199552528
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) developed a variety of identities as a writer: essayist, philosopher, critic of literature, drama, and painting, biographer, political commentator, and polemicist. What unites this variety is his dramatic and passionate intelligence, his unswerving commitment to individual and political liberty, and his courageous opposition to established political and cultural power. Hailed in 1819 as `one of the ablest and most eloquent critics of our nation', Hazlitt was also reviled for his political radicalism by the conservative press of the period. His writing engages with many of the important cultural and political debates of a revolutionary period, and retains its power both to provoke and move the reader.