ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).

Detailed explanation-2: -By 1820 he had developed what was to be his “Elia” prose style. He was the first intensely personal, truly Romantic essayist, never rivaled in popularity by his friends Leigh Hunt and William Hazlitt. Many of Lamb’s essays before those he signed Elia came out in Hunt’s publications.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although Lamb was writing in a form that many of the Victorians who followed him chose to use as well, his work has many characteristics that situate his work as an essayist and poet among the English Romantics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Lamb, (born Feb. 10, 1775, London, Eng.-died Dec. 27, 1834, Edmonton, Middlesex), English essayist and critic, best known for his Essays of Elia (1823–33).

Detailed explanation-5: -In his essays we get to see Lamb the man-his affection, loyalty, uncomplaining endurance, simplicity, likes and dislikes, sportive humour and serious moods. His essays are intensely personal and subjective. They cover a great variety of topics, but the approach is always personal.