Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb 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, William 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".

Selected works:

• Blank Verse, poetry, 1798
• A Tale of Rosamund Gray, and old blind Margaret, 1798
• John Woodvil, poetic drama, 1802
• Tales from Shakespeare, 1807
• The Adventures of Ulysses, 1808
• Specimens of English Dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, 1808
• On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, 1811
• Witches and Other Night Fears, 1821
• The Pawnbroker's Daughter, 1825
• Eliana, 1867
• Essays of Elia, 1823
• The Last Essays of Elia, 1833