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Title: Charles Lamb

Author: Walter Jerrold

Release Date: March 13, 2006 [EBook #17977]

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[Illustration: CHARLES LAMB AT THE AGE OF FIFTY-ONE.
BY HENRY MEYER.
From the original painting at the India Office, reproduced by permission
of the Secretary of State for India in Council.]

Bell's Miniature Series of Great Writers

CHARLES LAMB

BY

WALTER JERROLD

LONDON
GEORGE BELL & SONS
1905

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE STORY OF HIS LIFE

HIS PRINCIPAL WRITINGS:

Poetry
The Drama
Stories
Verses
Criticism
Essays
Letters

THE ESSAYS OF ELIA

HIS STYLE

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WORKS

POSTHUMOUS WORKS AND COLLECTED EDITION

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHARLES LAMB AT THE AGE OF 51.
_By Henry Meyer_ _Frontispiece_

CHRIST'S HOSPITAL

THE DINING HALL, CHRIST'S HOSPITAL

SKETCH OF CHARLES LAMB AT THE AGE OF 44
_By G. F. Joseph, A.R.A._

HOLOGRAPH LETTER TO JOHN CLARE THE
PEASANT POET, 31 August, 1822

CHARLES LAMB

THE STORY OF HIS LIFE

Charles Lamb's biography should be read at length in his essays and
his letters--from them we get to know not only the facts of his life
but almost insensibly we get a knowledge of the man himself such as
cannot be conveyed in any brief summary. He is as a friend, a loved
friend, whom it seems almost sacrilegious to summarize in the compact
sentences of a biographical dictionary, of whom it would be a wrong to
write if the writing were to be used instead of, rather than as an
introduction to, a literary self-portrait, more striking it may be
believed than