Biography of charles lamb

BORN: 1775, London, England

DIED: 1834, Edmonton, England

NATIONALITY: British

GENRE: Nonfiction, poetry, fiction

MAJOR WORKS:
Blank Verse (1798)
Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare (1808)
Mrs.

Leicester's School (1809)
Essays from Elia (1823)

Overview

Charles Lamb's elegant prose made him a major essayist of the Romantic era, and has formed a part of the canon of English literature ever since.

His essays have delighted generations of readers, and his literary criticism testifies to his versatility and perceptiveness. He was also well-known to his contemporaries as a novelist, journalist, poet, writer for children, and fine critic, devoted to “antiquity”—particularly Latin literature and that of Elizabethan and seventeenth-century writers.

His popularity extended through the nineteenth century into the twentieth, but waned after 1934, the centenary of his death. Since the 1