Charles Lamb

Author:   Alfred Ainger
Publisher:   Ehrsam Press
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Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 September 2007
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PKEFATORY NOTE. THE writings of Charles Lamb abound in biographical matter. To them, and to the well-known volumes of the late Mr. Justice Talfourd, I am mainly indebted for the material of which this memoir is composed. I have added a complete list of the chief works from which information about Lamb and his sister has been obtained. I have also had the advantage of communica- tion with those who were personally acquainted with Lamb, and have received from others valuable assistance in exploring less known sources of information. Among those to whom my acknowledgments for much kindness are due, I would mention Mrs. Arthur Tween, a daughter of that old and loyal friend of the Lamb family, Mr. Randal Norris Mr. James Crossley, of Manchester Mr. Edward FitzGerald Mr. W. Aldis Wright and last, not least, my friend Mr. J. E. Davis, of the Middle Temple, whose kind interest in this little book has been un- failing. A. A. AUTHOKITIES CONSULTED. 1. The Essays of Elia, and other writings, in prose and verse, of Charles Lamb. 2. Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of his Life by Thomas Noon Talfourd 1837 3. Final Memorials of CharlesLamb, c., by Thomas Noon Talfourd 1848 4. Charles Lamb A Memoir, by Barry Cornwall . . 1866 5. Charles and Mary Lamb Poems, Letters, and Re- mains, by W. Carew Hazlitt 1874 6. Gillmans Life of Coleridge, vol. i 1838 7. Cottles Early Recollections of Coleridge . . . 1837 8. Alsops Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of 1836 Coleridge 9. My Friends and Acquaintance, by P. Gr. Patmore . 1854 10. Autobiography ofLeigh Hunt 1850 11. Memoirs ofWilliam Hazlitt, by W. Carew Hazlitt . 1867 12. LiteraryReminiscences, byThomasHood in Hoods Own 1839 and Journals .... 185313. Haydons Autobiography 14. Diary ofHenry Crabb Robinson 1869 15. Memoir of Charles Mathews the elder, by Mrs. Mathews 1838 16. Life and Correspondence ofRobert Southey . . 1849 17. Obituary Notices, Reminiscences, Essays, c., in. various magazines and reviews. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. 1775-1789. PAK BOYHOOD. THE TEMPLE AND CHRISTS HOSPITAL 1 CHAPTER II. L17S9-U-JG.J FAMILY STRUGGLES AND SORROWS 17 CHAPTER III. 1790-1800. FIRST EXPERIMENTS IN LITERATURE 33 CHAPTER IV. 1SOO-1S09. DRAMATIC AUTHORSHIP AND DRAMATIC CRITICISM 49 CHAPTER V. 1S09-1S17. INNER TEMPLE LANE. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS 73 CHAPTER VI. 1817-1823. RUSSELL STREET, COTENT GARDEN. THE ESSAYS OF ELIA, 94 x CONTENTS. CHAPTER YH. 1823-1826. PAGB COLEBROOK ROW, ISLINGTON. THE CONTROVERSY WITH SOUTHEY, AND RETIREMENT FROM THE INDIA HOUSE 122 ENTIELD AND EDMONTON LAMBS PLACE AS A CRITIC CHAPTER VIII. 1826-1834.3 CHAPTER IX. 146 168 CHARLES LAMB. CHAPTER I. 1775-1789. I WAS born and passed the first seven years of my lite in the Temple. Its church, its halls, its gardens, its foun- tain, its river, I had almost said for in those young years what was this king of rivers to me but a stream that watered our pleasant places these are of my oldest recollections. In this manner does Charles Lamb, in an es- say that is one of the masterpieces of English prose, open for us those passages of autobiography which happily abound in his writings. The words do more than fix places and dates. They strike the key in which his early life was set and the later life, hardly less. The genius of Lamb was surely guided into its special channel by the chance that the first fourteen years of his life were passed, as has been said, between cloister andcloister, between the medieval atmosphere of the quiet Temple and that of the busy school of Edward VL Charles Lamb was born on the 10th of February, 1775, in Crown Office Row in the Temple, the line of buildings

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Author:   Alfred Ainger
Publisher:   Ehrsam Press
Imprint:   Ehrsam Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781406781076


ISBN 10:   140678107
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 September 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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