National Review, April 19th, 1985
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 as Coleridge, Wordworth, Hazlitt, and Marry Shelley. In A Portrait of Charles Lamb, David Cecil, the distinguished English biographer, describes a man who was "an ambiguous blend of mood and thought" and whose life was sustained and nourished by friendship, a puckish sense of humor, and a delight in irony and the absurd. Cecil describes Lamb's Essays of Elia as ...
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