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Charles Lamb ( 1775-02-10 - 1834-12-27 ) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare , which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Essays of Elia (1823)...


Biography

Name: Charles Lamb
Birth Date: February 10, 1775
Death Date: December 27, 1834
Place of Birth: London, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, critic

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Biography of Charles Lamb
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The English author, critic, and minor poet Charles Lamb (1775-1834) is best known for the essays he wrote under the name Elia. He remains one of the most loved and read of English essayists. Charles Lamb was born on Feb. 10, 1775, in London. At the age...
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Biography of Charles Lamb
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With his Elia essays, nearly all written for the London Magazine during the years 1820-1826, Charles Lamb, clerk at the East India Company for thirty-three years, achieved a blend of the personal, witty, poetic, and profound in exquisitely subtle short...
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Biography of Charles Lamb
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The following essay discusses Charles Lamb and his sister, Mary Lamb. Although Charles Lamb was best known to his contemporaries for his essays published under the pseudonym "Elia," his place in the annals of children's literature rests on Tales from...
 


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Charles Lamb (London, 10 February 1775 – Edmonton, 27 December 1834) was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary...


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American Scholar
The unfuzzy Lamb. (Charles Lamb)
06/22/1998: 4,493 words, approx. 15 pages
The author Charles Lamb deserves more popularity than he currently experiences. His life was often difficult, including attendance at a harsh charity school, episodes of insanity, and a family murder. Lamb's writing, especially his essays and criticism, remain perceptive and witty. Lamb was also...
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National Review
A portrait of Charles Lamb.
04/19/1985: 307 words, approx. 1 pages
CHARLES LAMB is one of those writers who are remembered as much for the company they kept as for their own literary achievement. Although he was an esteemed essayist in his own time, Lamb is better known now as a friend of writers such...
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Venus Zine
What does Samuel Taylor Coleridge have to do with liquid nitrogen ice cream?
6/25/2007: 592 words, approx. 2 pages
I read pretty much all of At Large and At Small in one sitting, slightly hung over, lying around in bed on a Saturday morning. When I’m reading a collection of essays by a pronounced journalist (Fadiman being the former editor of The American Scholar),...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Joseph E. Riehl
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In the following excerpt, Riehl discusses late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century critical reaction to Lamb's works.
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Critical Essay by David Chandler
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In the following essay, Chandler explicates Lamb's largely neglected poetic response to atheism entitled “Living without God in the World.”
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Critical Essay by Janet Ruth Heller
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In the following excerpt, Heller assesses Lamb's “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare” and other critical essays that concentrate on the act of reading as a creative process.
 


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