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: -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-4: -A Tale of Rosamund Gray, a prose romance, appeared in 1798, and in 1802 he published John Woodvil, a poetic tragedy. “The Old Familiar Faces” (1789) remains his best-known poem, although “On an Infant Dying As Soon As It Was Born” (1828) is his finest poetic achievement.

Detailed explanation-5: -Charles Lamb unites many of the characteristics of each of this writers-refined and exquisite humour, a genuine and cordial vein of pleasantry and heart-touching pathos. His fancy is distinguished by great delicacy and tenderness; and even his conceits are imbued with human feeling and passion.