Charles Lamb
historical figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Lamb
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Essayist named as part of the literary generation of the period.
This was in literature the age of Coleridge (1772-1834), of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), of Wordsworth (1770-1850), of Charles Lamb (1775-1834), of Hazlitt (1778-1830), of Miss Austen (1775-1817), of Miss Edgeworth (1767-1849), of Byron (1788-1824), of Shelley (1792-1822), of Sydney Smith (1771-1845), of Jeffrey (1773-1850), and of the whole body of Edinburgh Reviewers.
It owes its exemption from the Index Expurgatorius of books which are no books—biblia a biblia—to which Lamb would relegate all scientific treatises, at once to the dignity and intrinsic interest of its subject and to the author’s incomparable gift of clear and graceful exposition.
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
English essayist invoked as a closing illustrative comparison to Chinese ancestor worship.
There are 300 millions of Chinese who would hardly see a joke in Charles Lamb, reviling the stupid age that would not read him, and declaring that he would write for antiquity.
Law in a Free State
Essayist cited as having nearly apotheosised roast sucking-pig, exemplifying the poetry of the dinner-table.
Charles Lamb has gone nigh to apotheosising roast sucking-pig.