| The Life Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb V2 Contributor(s): Lamb, Charles (Author), Fitzgerald, Percy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1169835198 ISBN-13: 9781169835191 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $47.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - History - Biography & Autobiography - Literary Collections |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 11.02" W x 8.5" (2.98 lbs) 464 pages |
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| Publisher Description: (LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1897. Volume Two of Six. English essayist and poet, Charles Lamb (pen name Elia), studied at Christ's Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When he was twenty years old Lamb suffered a period of insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but was eventually released into the care of her brother. Lamb became friends in London with a group of young writers who favored political reform including Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt. Among his most remembered works are his collection of Essays of Elia; the poem The Old Familiar Faces and the essay Dream Children. He also wrote Tales from Shakespeare in collaboration with his sister and The Adventures Of Ulysses were valuable retellings of classic works for children. Lamb's critical comments in Specimens of English Dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare are among the classics of English criticism. This volume contains Lamb's correspondence with: Coleridge, Southey, Wordsworths, Manning, The Hazlitts, Barton, Hone, Proctor, Cary, Moxon, The Gilmans, Wilson, and Miss Hutchinson. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
