Charles Lamb
1775 – 1834 · aged 59
British essayist, poet, antiquarian (1775–1834)
- Born
- 10 Feb 1775 · London
- Died
- 27 Dec 1834 · Edmonton
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- 10 Feb 1775BornBorn in London
- 27 Dec 1834DiedDied in Edmonton
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- 1789 – 1799French Revolution
- 1812 – 1815War of 1812
- 1814 – 1815Congress of Vienna
Biography
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".
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