Charles Lamb and his Contemporaries

This volume was based on lectures delivered by the author and offers a critical sketch of the English essayist Charles Lamb.

Edmund Blunden (Author)

9781107680104, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 April 2012

226 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm, 0.25 kg

Originally published in 1933, Charles Lamb and his Contemporaries by Edmund Blunden was included in the Cambridge Miscellany series in 1937. It is the 'Miscellany' edition which is re-issued here. The volume was based on the Clark Lectures delivered by the author in Cambridge in 1932 and offers a critical sketch of the English essayist Charles Lamb.

Preface
1. An eighteenth-century childhood
2. The new poetry
3. Charles and Mary
4. The new criticism
5. Almost perfect sympathies
6. Elina
7. Elia's farewell
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]