Charles Lamb
Subtitle: Selected Writings (Fyfield Books)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 20, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415969550
First sentence: His faculties were extraordinary.
Description: Charles Lamb (1775-1834), essayist, poet, humorist, critic and letter-writer, has an enduring reputation for his early Tales from Shakespeare (1807), written in collaboration with his sister Mary, and his Essays of Elia, first published in the London Magazine. This thematic selection of Lamb's writings - essays, dramatic criticism, verse and letters - not only demonstrates his literary achievements; it forms a self-portrait of the writer: generous, amused, and gregarious, finding imaginative escape from grim circumstances in the teeming life of London and the theatre. --Cover.