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Charles birth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation, await For other uses, see Charles shake off (disambiguation). Charles lamb Born 10 February 1775 cozy Temple, capital of the United Kingdom, England Died 27 December 1834 (aged59) Edmonton, London, England Causeof death Erysipelas Knownfor Essays of dear Tales from Shakespeare Relatives bloody shame love (sister), John deliver (brother) Charles dearest (10 February 1775 27 December 1834) was an face studyist, beaver known for his Essays of Elia and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, bloody shame deliver (17641847). have has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as the most lovable figure in position literature. 1 Con cristalts * 1 Youth and domesticateing * 2 Family tragedy * 3 Work * 4 Legacy * 5 Quotations * 6 Selected recreates * 7 Biographical references * 8 References * 9 External link up Youth and schooling characterizat ion plaque of bear sculpted by George Frampton beloved was natural in London, the son of Elizabeth Field and John love. deliver was the rawest child, with an 11 year grayer sister bloody shame, an even older brother John, and 4 other siblings who did not survive their infancy. John lamb (father), who was a lawyers clerk, dog-tired most of his professional life as the assistant and servant to a barrister by the be of Samuel Salt who lived in the Inner Temple in London. It was there in the Inner Temple in Crown status Row that Charles Lamb was born and fagged his youth. Lamb created a personation of his father in his Elia on the Old Benchers under the name Lovel.Lambs older brother was too much his senior to be a youthful companion to the boy scarce his sister Mary, being born eleven years out front him, was probably his closest playmate. Lamb was in addition cared for by his paternal aunt Hetty, who seems to dupe had a rangeicular nitty-gritty for him. A be of wri tings by twain Charles and Mary draw out that the conflict between Aunt Hetty and her sister-in-law created a certain degree of tenseness in the Lamb household. However, Charles speaks fondly of her and her presence in the house seems to have brought a coarse deal of comfort to him.Some of Lambs fondest childhood memories were of meter played out with Mrs. Field, his maternal granny, who was for some years a servant to the Plummer family, who owned a large-scale country house called Blakesware, near Widford, Hertfordshire. After the death of Mrs. Plummer, Lambs grand generate was in sole charge of the large fellowship and, as Mr. Plummer was oft absent, Charles had free rein of the place during his visits. A picture of these visits can be glimpsed in the Elia act Blakesmoor in Hshire. Why, every plank over and panel of that house for me had magic in it.The tapestried bed-rooms tapestry so much better than painting not adorning merely, but peopling the wainscots at wh ich childhood ever and anon would steal a look, shifting its coverlid (replaced as quickly) to exercising its tender courage in a momentary eye-encounter with those stern happy visages, staring reciprocally all Ovid on the walls, in colours vivider than his descriptions. 2 diminutive is known about Charless life before the age of seven. We know that Mary taught him to read at a very early age and he read voraciously.It is believed that he suffered from smallpox during his early years which forced him into a long period of convalescence. After this period of recovery Lamb began to chance on lessons from Mrs. Reynolds, a woman who lived in the Temple and is believed to have been the former wife of a lawyer. Mrs. Reynolds must have been a sympathetic schoolmistress because Lamb maintained a relationship with her throughout his life and she is known to have attended dinner parties held by Mary and Charles in the 1820s. E. V. Lucas suggests that some period in 1781 Charles left Mrs .Reynolds and began to study at the Academy of William Bird. 3 His time with William Bird did not last long, however, because by October 1782 Lamb was enrolled in Christs infirmary, a charity embarkation school chartered by King Edward VI in 1552. Christs Hospital was a traditional English boarding school bleak and full of violence. The head subdue, Mr. Boyer, has become famous for his teaching in Latin and Greek, but withal for his brutality. A thorough record of Christs Hospital in Several essays by Lamb as well as the Autobiography ofLeigh Hunt and the Biographia Literaria of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with whom Charles demonstrable a friendship that would last for their entire lives. Despite the brutality Lamb got along well at Christs Hospital, due in part, perhaps, to the fact that his home was not far distant thus enabling him, unlike galore(postnominal) other boys, to return a lot to the safety of home. Years later, in his essay Christs Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ag o, Lamb described these events, speaking of himself in the triad person as L. I remember L. t school and can well recollect that he had some peculiar advantages, which I and other of his schoolfellows had not. His friends lived in town, and were near at hand and he had the privilege of going to see them, almost as often as he wished, through some invidious distinction, which was denied to us. 4 Portrait of Charles Lamb by William Hazlitt, 1804 Christs Hospital was a typical English boarding school and many students later wrote of the afflictive violence they suffered there. The upper master of the school from 1778 to 1799 was Reverend James Boyer, a man renowned for his capricious and capricious temper.In whiz famous story Boyer was said to have knocked one of Leigh Hunts teeth out by throwing a copy of Homer at him from across the room. Lamb seemed to have escaped much of this brutality, in part because of his amiable personality and in part because Samuel Salt, his fathers employer and Lambs sponsor at the school was one of the institutes Governors. Charles Lamb suffered from a stutter and this an inconquerable impediment in his dialect deprived him of Grecian status at Christs Hospital and thus modify him for a clerical career.While Coleridge and other scholarly boys were able to go on to Cambridge, Lamb left school at fourteen and was forced to adjust a more prosaic career. For a short time he worked in the office of Joseph Paice, a London merchant and then, for 23 weeks, until 8 February 1792, held a small post in the Examiners Office of the South sea House. Its subsequent downfall in a pyramid scheme by and by Lamb left would be contrasted to the companys prosperity in the starting Elia essay. On 5 April 1792 he went to work in the Accountants Office for British East India Company, the death of his fathers employer having ruined the familys fortunes.Charles would continue to work there for 25 years, until his retirement with pension. In 1792 while tending to his grandmother, Mary Field, in Hertfordshire, Charles Lamb fell in love with a young woman named Ann Simmons. Although no epistolary record exists of the relationship between the cardinal, Lamb seems to have spent years wooing Miss Simmons. The record of the love exists in some(prenominal) accounts of Lambs writing. Rosamund grey-headed is a story of a young man named Allen Clare who loves Rosamund white-haired(a) but their relationship comes to nothing because of the sudden death of Miss Gray.Miss Simmons alike appears in several Elia essays under the name Alice M. The essays Dream Children, fresh Years Eve, and several others, speak of the many years that Lamb spent pursue his love that ultimately failed. Miss Simmons eventually went on to marry a silversmith by the name of Bartram and Lamb called the failure of the affair his great disappointment. Family tragedy Charles and his sister Mary both suffered periods of mental illness. Charles spent hexad we eks in a psychiatric hospital during 1795. He was, however, already do his name as a poet.On 22 September 1796, a terrible event occurred Mary, worn down to a state of extreme dying(p) misery by attention to needlework by day and to her mother at night, was seized with acute mania and stabbed her mother to the heart with a carry over knife. Although there was no legal status of insanity at the time, a dialog box returned a verdict of Lunacy and therefore freed her from guilt of willful murder. With the help of friends Lamb succeeded in obtaining his sisters release from what would otherwise have been lifelong imprisonment, on the match that he take personal responsibility for her safekeeping.Lamb used a large part of his relatively meagre income to keep his beloved sister in a private madhouse in Islington called Fisher House. The 1799 death of John Lamb was something of a relief to Charles because his father had been mentally incapacitated for a number of years since suffering a stroke. The death of his father also meant that Mary could come to live again with him in Pentonville, and in 1800 they set up a shared home at Mitre Court Buildings in the Temple, where they lived until 1809. Monument to Charles Lamb at Watch House on Giltspur Street, London.Despite Lambs bouts of melancholia and alcoholism, both he and his sister enjoyed an active and rich social life. Their London canton became a kind of weekly salon for many of the most large theatrical and literary figures of the day. Charles Lamb, having been to school with Samuel Coleridge, counted Coleridge as perhaps his closest, and certainly his oldest, friend. On his deathbed, Coleridge had a mourning ring sent to Lamb and his sister. Fortuitously, Lambs first off effect was in 1796, when four sonnets by Mr. Charles Lamb of the India House appeared in Coleridges Poems on Various Subjects.In 1797 he contributed additional blank pen to the second edition, and met the Wordsworths, William and Doroth y, on his short summer holiday with Coleridge at Nether Stowey, thereby also striking up a lifelong friendship with William. In London, Lamb became familiar with a group of young generators who favoured political reform, including Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt. Lamb move to clerk for the East India Company and doubled as a writer in various genres, his tragedy, John Woodvil, being promulgated in 1802. His farce, Mr H, was performed at Drury Lane in 1807, where it was roundly booed.In the same year, Tales from Shakespeare (Charles handled the tragedies his sister Mary, the comedies) was published, and became a best seller for William Godwins Childrens Library. In 1819, at age 44, Lamb, who, because of family commitments, had never married, fell in love with an actress, Fanny Kelly, of Covent Garden, and proposed marriage. She refused him, and he died a bachelor. His collected essays, under the statute title Essays of Elia, were published in 1823 (Elia bein g the pen name Lamb used as a contributor to the London Magazine).A further hookup was published ten years or so later, shortly before Lambs death. He died of a streptococcal infection, erysipelas, contracted from a minor straddle on his face sustained after slipping in the street, on 27 December 1834, just a few months after Coleridge. He was 59. From 1833 till their deaths Charles and Mary lived at Bay Cottage, Church Street, Edmonton north of London (now part of the London Borough of Enfield. 5 Lamb is buried in All Saints Churchyard, Edmonton. His sister, who was ten years his senior, survived him for more than a dozen years.She is buried beside him. Work Lambs first publication was the inclusion of four sonnets in the Coleridges Poems on Various Subjects published in 1796 by Joseph Cottle. The sonnets were significantly influenced by the poetry forms of Burns and the sonnets of William Bowles, a largely forgotten poet of the late 18th century. His poems garnered little att ention and are seldom read today. Lambs contributions to the second edition of the Poems showed significant growth as a poet. These poems included The Tomb of Douglas and A Vision of Repentance.Because of a temporary fall-out with Coleridge, Lambs poems were to be excluded in the third edition of the Poems. As it turned out, a third edition never emerged. Instead, Coleridges next publication was the monumentally influential Lyrical Ballads co-published with Wordsworth. Lamb, on the other hand, published a book entitled Blank euphony with Charles Lloyd, the mentally unstable son of the founder of Lloyds Bank. Lambs most famous poem was written at this time entitled The Old Familiar Faces. equal most of Lambs poems it is particularly sentimental but it is still remembered and widely read, often included in Poetic Collections.Of particular interest to Lambarians is the opening verse of the original version of The Old Familiar Faces which is concerned with Lambs mother. It was a verse that Lamb chose to remove from the edition of his Collected Work published in 1818. I had a mother, but she died, and left me, Died prematurely in a day of horrors All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. From a plum young age Lamb desired to be a poet but never gained the success that he had hoped. Lamb lived under the poetic empennage of his friend Coleridge.In the final years of the 18th century Lamb began to work on prose with the novella entitled Rosamund Gray, a story of a young girl who was survey to be inspired by Ann Simmonds, with whom Charles Lamb was thought to be in love. Although the story is not particularly successful as a narrative because of Lambs poor sense of plot, it was well thought of by Lambs contemporaries and led Shelley to observe what a lovely thing is Rosamund Gray How much knowledge of the sweetest part of our genius in it (Quoted in Barnett, rascal 50) Charles and Mary Lambs grave Lambs cottage, Edmonton, LondonIn the first years of the 19th century Lamb began his fruitful literary cooperation with his sister Mary. Together they wrote at least third books for William Godwins Juvenile Library. The most successful of these was of course Tales From Shakespeare which ran through two editions for Godwin and has now been published dozens of times in countless editions, many of them illustrated. Lamb also contributed a footnote to Shakespearean studies at this time with his essay On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, in which he argues that Shakespeare should be read rather than performed in order to gain the proper effect of his dramatic genius.Beside bring to Shakespeare studies with his book Tales From Shakespeare, Lamb also contributed to the popularization of Shakespeares contemporaries with his book Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare. Although he did not write his first Elia essay until 1820, Lambs gradual perfection of the essay form for which he eventually became famous began as early 1802 in a series of open letters to Leigh Hunts Reflector. The most famous of these is called The Londoner in which Lamb famously derides the contemporary fascination with nature and the countryside. LegacyAnne Fadiman notes regretfully that Lamb is not widely read in young times I do not understand why so few other readers are clamoring for his company he is kept vivacious largely through the tenuous resuscitations of university English departments. 6 Lamb was honoured by The Latymer School, a grammar school in Edmonton, a suburb of London where he lived for a time it has six houses, one of which, Lamb, is named after Charles. 7 Quotations * Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. features in the preface of To Kill a Mockingbird. * Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. features in the Essays of Elia, 1823. Selected works * Blank Verse, poetry, 1798 * A Tale of Rosamund Gray, and old blind Margaret, 1798 * John Woodvi l, poetic drama, 1802 * Tales from Shakespeare, 1807 * The Adventures of Ulysses, 1808 * Specimens of English Dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, 1808 * On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, 1811 * Witches and Other Night Fears, 1821 * The Pawnbrokers Daughter, 1825 * Eliana, 1867 * Essays of Elia, 1823 * The Last Essays of Elia, 1833 Biographical references * Life of Charles Lamb by E. V. Lucas, G. P. Putman & Sons, London, 1905. * Charles Lamb and the Lloyds by E.V. Lucas Smith, Elder & Company, London, 1898. * Charles Lamb and His Contemporaries, by Edmund Blunden, Cambridge University Press, 1933. * Companion to Charles Lamb, by Claude Prance, Mansell Publishing, London, 1938. * Charles Lamb A Memoir, by Barry Cornwall aka Bryan Procter, Edward Moxon, London, 1866. * early days Charles Lamb, by Winifred Courtney, New York University Press, 1982. * Portrait of Charles Lamb, by David Cecil, Constable, London, 1983. * Charles Lamb, by George Barnett, Twayne Pu blishers, Boston, 1976. * A ternary Life A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb by Sarah Burton, Viking, 1993. The Lambs Their Lives, Their Friends, and Their arrangement by William Carew Hazlitt, C. Scribners Sons, 1897. References 1. Lucas, Edward Verrall Lamb, John (1905). The life of Charles Lamb. 1. London G. P. Putnams Sons. p. xvii. OCLC361094. 2. Last Essays of Elia summon 7 3. Lucas, Life of Lamb rascal 41 4. The Essays of Elia page 23 5. Literary Enfield Retrieved 04 June 2008 6. Fadiman, Anne. The Unfuzzy Lamb. At Large and At tiny Familiar Essays. pp. 2627. 7. Lamb, Charles Best Letters of Charles Lamb. Best Letters of Charles Lamb (2006) 1. Literary Reference Center. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2009.