Biography EssayWith 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 t...
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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 La...
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Charles Lamb achieved lasting fame as a writer during the years 1820-1825, when he captivated the discerning English reading public with his personal essays in the London Magazine, collected as Essays...
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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, wit...
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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 an...
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In the following essay, Wilson documents Lamb's literary responses to nature and the natural world.
I want to share with you some ideas about Lamb's character relating to his experien...
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In the following essay, Woodbery considers Lamb's “Edax on Appetite” and “Hospita on the Immoderate Indulgence of the Pleasures of the Palate” as satirical attacks o...
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In the following essay, Clark comments on Lamb's highly personal and eccentric, but perceptive, style in his Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare.
In ...
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In the following essay, Woodbery places Lamb's “Confessions of a Drunkard” in its appropriate contexts of time and publication to view the essay as “a satiric portrait of a...
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In the following essay, Ruddick summarizes trends in Lamb scholarship since the 1960s.
Taking on the editorship of the Charles Lamb Bulletin has led me to review the current situation in Lamb studi...
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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.”
Mystery of God! thou brave and beaut...
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In the following excerpt, Riehl discusses late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century critical reaction to Lamb's works.
The first reactions to Lamb in England were political or, more accu...
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In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture, Aaron summarizes the vicissitudes of Lamb's literary reputation since his death.
In 1975, this society, the Charles Lamb Society, m...
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In the following essay, Nicholes describes Lamb's historical drama, John Woodvil, as an analogical commentary on the political situation contemporary to Lamb.
The idea that Charles Lamb was ...
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In the following essay, Sokol examines Samuel Taylor Coleridge's revisions to a Lamb sonnet and notes Lamb's subsequent abandonment of verse composition.
Before twice printing it toge...
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In the following essay, Schoenfield analyzes Lamb's essay “The Old and the New Schoolmaster” in the contexts of periodical publication in the early nineteenth century and of Willi...
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In the following essay, Monsman explores the relationship between Lamb's occupation as an accounting clerk for the East India Company and his work as a creative writer.
In “Recollecti...
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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.
Schol...
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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 journali...
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Charles Lamb
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Critical Essay by D. G. Wilson
What does Samuel Taylor Coleridge have to do with liquid nitrogen ice cream?
