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Dream-Child - A Life of Charles Lamb (Hardcover)
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An in-depth look into the life of Romantic essayist Charles Lamb
and the legacy of his work "[An] electrifying portrait of Charles
Lamb."-New Yorker 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 books. In exploring Mary's presence in Charles's
darkly comical essays, Wilson also shows how Lamb reverberates in
today's experimental literature.
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