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CHARLES LAMB (1775–1834)

‘I want individuals. I am made up of queer points and I want so many answering needles,’ Lamb once said of himself – as concise and perceptive a summary of his essential nature as anyone would ever produce. He was an eccentric, a misfit, and one of the finest essayists of the age.

Charles Lamb was the youngest son of John Lamb and Elizabeth Field, born in 1775 at Crown Office Row, London, where his father was clerk to Samuel Salt, a Bencher (senior member of the Inns of Court) of the Inner Temple. He had an older brother, John (1763–1821), and a sister, Mary (1764–1847). He was educated at Christ’s Hospital in Newgate Street, where he was a contemporary of Coleridge, as recalled in his essay, ‘Christ’s Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago’.

Lamb spent vacations at Blakesware, a country house in Hertfordshire, where his grandmother was housekeeper. It was here that he met his first love, Ann Simmons, but her rejection of him in 1795 was such a shock that it precipitated a fit of insanity. By now he had begun a long career with the East India Company (1792–

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Charles Lamb (February 10, 1775 –- December 27, 1834) was an English poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and essayist of the English Romantic period. A close contemporary and personal friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb was considered a critical member of the Lake Poets, but unlike Wordsworth and Coleridge his poetry never achieved lasting fame. Eventually, Lamb redirected his energies away from verse to prose, and in the process he became one of the most valuable and enduring essayists of the Romantic period.

As an essayist, Lamb is best known for two collections: The first, Essays of Elia consists of a series of deeply autobiographical memoirs and essays written from the pseudonymous perspective of "Elia" and originally published as a serial for London Magazine. Essays of Elia are acclaimed as some of the finest early examples of the essay form in English, as well as exemplary masterpieces of English prose. The second work, Tales from Shakespeare, is perhaps more unusual: commissioned as a retelling of |Shakespeare'

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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 lo