Miscellaneous Essays (Lamb Miscellaneous Essays; Pitt Press)
Cambridge University Press, 3/9/2009
EAN 9780521100885, ISBN10: 0521100887
Paperback, 280 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Charles 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.
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.