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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

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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

English essayist, poet, and antiquarian (1775–1834)

For other uses, see Charles Lamb (disambiguation).

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]

Youth and schooling

Lamb was born in London, the son of John Lamb (c. 1725–1799) and Elizabeth (died 1796), née Field.^[2] Lamb had an elder brother, also John, and sister, Mary; four other siblings did not survive infancy. John Lamb (Lamb's father) was a lawyer's clerk^[3] and spent most of his professional life as the assistant to barrister Samuel Salt, who