Miscellaneous Essays
Miscellaneous Essays
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GBPCharles Lamb (1775–1834) was one of the great masters of the essay, at a time when the essay was a powerful and influential literary form. This collection, first published in 1921, presents a range of Lamb's essays from throughout his career, each accompanied by explanatory notes. Lamb here addresses topics as diverse as moral and personal deformity, recollections of Christ's Hospital, and the inconveniences resulting from being hanged. He discusses the work of Hogarth and Shakespeare, and records his sadness at the death of his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Together the essays offer a fascinating insight into the Romantic age through the eyes of one of its most prominent literary figures.
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February 2009Paperback
9780521100885
280 pages
203 × 127 × 16 mm
0.31kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Curious Fragments
- 2. On the Inconveniences Resulting from Being Hanged
- 3. On the Danger of Confounding Moral with Personal Deformity
- with a Hint to those who have the Framing of Advertisements for Apprehending Offenders
- 4. On the Genius and Character of Hogarth: With some Remarks on a Passage of the Writings of the Late Mr Barry
- 5. On the Custom of Hissing at the Theatres, with some Account of a Club of Damned Authors
- 6. On Burial Societies and the Character of an Undertaker
- 7. On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation
- 8. Edax on Appetite
- 9. Hospita on the Immoderate Indulgence of the Pleasures of the Palate
- 10. The Good Clerk, a Character with Some Account of the 'Complete English Tradesman'
- 11. Recollections of Christ's Hospital
- 12. On the Melancholy of Tailors
- 13. The Gentle Giantess
- 14. Letter to an Old Gentleman whose Education has been Neglected
- 15. Guy Faux
- 16. Nugæ Criticæ
- 17. The Illustrious Defunct
- 18. Unitarian Protests
- 19. Reflections in the Pillory
- 20. The Last Peach
- 21. A Popular Fallacy
- 22. Captain Starkey
- 23. An Autobiographical Sketch
- 24. The Death of Coleridge.
