Research Catalog

Title

Essays of Elia / Charles Lamb.

Author

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834

Publication

London : Hesperus, 2009.

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Details

Description

xi, 169 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Published under the pseudonym 'Elia,' Charles Lamb's series of essays on subjects ranging from the impressionability of schoolboys to the peculiarity of one's relations, from the pitfalls of lending books to the delights of a roast meal, gained him a devoted following among nineteenth-century readers. By turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating and philosophical, in these essays Lamb offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt.

Series Statement

Hesperus classics

Uniform Title

Hesperus classics.

Subject

• English prose literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

My Relations -- Mackery End, In Hertfordshire -- Modern Gallantry -- The Old Benchers Of The Inner Temple -- Grace Before Meat -- My First Play -- Dream-Children; A Reverie -- Distant Correspondents -- The Praise Of Chimney-Sweepers -- A Complaint Of The Decay Of Beggars In The Metropolis -- A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig -- A Bachelor's Complaint Of the Behaviour Of Married People -- On Some Of The Old Actors -- On The Artificial Comedy Of The Last Century -- On The Acting Of Munden

ISBN

• 9781843911739 (pbk.)
• 1843911736 (pbk.)

OCLC

182731250

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library