Biography charles lamb
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Professor Eric G. Wilson’s new book, Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb, is now available in bookstores everywhere from Yale University Press.
Bookmarks will host a book talk and signing on January 27 at 7 p.m. Registration and more information can be found at bookmarksnc.org/EricGWilson.
Publisher’s description:
An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb and the legacy of his work
A pioneer of urban Romanticism, essayist Charles Lamb (1775–1834) found inspiration in London’s markets, theaters, prostitutes, and bookshops. He prized the city’s literary scene, too, where he was a star wit. He counted among his admirers Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His friends valued in his conversation what distinguished his writing style: a highly original blend of irony, whimsy, and melancholy.
Eric G. Wilson captures Lamb’s strange charm in this meticulously researched and engagingly written biography. He demonstrates how Lamb’s humor helped him cope with a life‑defining tragedy: in a fit of madness, his sister Mary murdered their mother. Arranging to care for her himself, Lamb saved her from the gallows. Delightful when sane, Mary became Charles’s muse, and she collaborated with him on children’s
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Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, and children's book writer most closely associated with the Romantic era that saw expanded expressionism and nationalist pride introduced to all aspects of the arts, from literature to music to painting. Lamb himself took as his subjects memory, kinship, and mischief, while taking issue with many of the social and religious mores of his modernizing and industrializing England. His biographer Barry Cornwall remarked, "Lamb pitied all objects which had been neglected or despised," and a sense of sympathy pervades his work, whether those pitiful "objects" are items or people.
Lamb was born in London, the middle child of Elizabeth Field and John Lamb. He had a significantly older brother also named John, and a younger sister named Mary. While he was raised with modest means in London, the parts of his childhood that he wrote about concerned his time with his grandmother at a mansion she maintained for a rich person that did not live there. During his youth, Lamb fell in love with a woman named Ann Simmons, who became his great unrequited love after she married a silversmith. She appears in Lamb's sonnets and essays under the moniker "Alice M."
Lamb wrote in specific genres during distinct periods of his life. He launched his literary c
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Charles Lamb: Male and Kin First
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