Charles Lamb |
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| Author:
| Cornwall, Barry |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5029-6628-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2015 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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"[...]it.-Tendency to Literature.-First Studies.-Influence of Antique Dwellings.-Early Friends.-Humor.-Qualities of Mind.-Sympathy for neglected Objects.-A Nonconformist.-Predilections.-Character.-Taste.- Style. The biography of CHARLES LAMB lies within a narrow compass. It comprehends only few events. His birth and parentage, and domestic sorrows; his acquaintance with remarkable men; his thoughts and habits; and his migrations from one home to another,-constitute the sum and...
More Description"[...]it.-Tendency to Literature.-First Studies.-Influence of Antique Dwellings.-Early Friends.-Humor.-Qualities of Mind.-Sympathy for neglected Objects.-A Nonconformist.-Predilections.-Character.-Taste.- Style. The biography of CHARLES LAMB lies within a narrow compass. It comprehends only few events. His birth and parentage, and domestic sorrows; his acquaintance with remarkable men; his thoughts and habits; and his migrations from one home to another,-constitute the sum and substance of his almost uneventful history. It is a history with one event, predominant. For this reason, and because I, in common with many others, hold a book needlessly large to be a great evil, it is my intention to confine the present memoir within moderate limits. My aim is not to write the "Life and Times" of Charles Lamb. Indeed, Lamb had no influence on his own times. He had little or nothing in common with his generation, which was almost a stranger to him. There was no reciprocity between them. His contemplations were retrospective. He was, when[...]".