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Charles Lamb

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Charles Lamb
Portrait by Henry Hoppner Meyer
Born(1775-02-10)10 February 1775
Inner Temple, London, England
Died27 December 1834(1834-12-27) (aged 59)
Edmonton, Middlesex, England
Other namesElia
Known forEssays of Elia
Tales from Shakespeare
RelativesMary Lamb (sister),
John Lamb (brother; 1763–1821)

Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".[1]

  1. ^ Lucas, Edward Verrall; Lamb, John (1905). The Life of Charles Lamb. Vol. 1. London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. p. xvii. OCLC 361094.

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