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Charles Lamb

 

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John Beaumont : An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont

'[Charles] Lamb copied ... [John Beaumont, Bart., the elder, "An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont"] into his copy of Beaumont and Fletcher's Fifty Comedies and Tragedies (1679).'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Unknown

  

Vincent Bourne : Latin Poems

'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way which does not come every day. The Latin Poems of V. Bourne which were quite new to me."'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      

  

Charles Cotton : Winter

Wu notes that Charles Lamb copied stanzas 20-53 of Charles Cotton, Winter, in letter to Wordsworth of 5 March 1803.

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      

  

William Cowper : On the Loss of the Royal George

'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['On the Loss of the Royal George'] in a letter to W[ordsworth] of 5 March ... On 31 March Lamb copied the same poem into C[oleridge]'s notebook.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Book

  

Mary Anne Lamb : Dialogue Between a Mother and Child

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Mary Anne Lamb : Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Mary Anne Lamb : Virgin and Child

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "Virgin and Child"] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Mary Anne Lamb : On the Same (Virgin and Child)

'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "On the Same" ("Virgin and Child")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Hannah More : Coelebs in Search of a Wife

'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of common novels with the drawback of dull religion in it."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Book

  

 : literary advertisements

Peter J. Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829": "Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthcoming in 1829, scoffed: 'Wordsworth I see has a good many pieces announced in one of em ...'"

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Unknown

  

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : annotations to Samuel Daniel's poetry

Charles Lamb's response to reading marginal comments by S. T. Coleridge in his copy of Samuel Daniel's Poetical Works, in letter to Coleridge: "'I wish every book I have were so noted. They have thoroughly converted me to relish Daniel, or to say I relish him ... Your notes are excellent. Perhaps you've forgot them.'"

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Manuscript: annotations in printed text

  

William Wycherley : Plays

H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations by Hunt and by Lamb.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Book

  

William Shakespeare : The Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volumes

'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes, and with plates, which, being so execrably bad, serve as maps, or modest remembrancers, to the text; and without pretending to any supposable emulation with it, are so much better than the Shakespeare gallery engravings, which did. [...] Winter evenings-the world shut out-with less of ceremony the gentle Shakespeare. At such a season, the Tempest, or his own Winter's Tale- These two poets [Shakespeare and Milton] youcannot avoid reading aloud-to your-self or (as it chances) to some single person listening. More than one-and it degenerates into an audience.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Book

  

John Milton : [poetry]

'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Fairy Queen for a stop-gap, or a volume of Bishop Andrewes' sermons? Milton almost requires a solemn service of music to be played before you enter upon him. But he brings his music, to which, who listens, had need bring docile thoughts, and purged ears.[...] you cannot avoid reading [him] aloud-to your-self or (as it chances) to some single person listening. More than one-and it degenerates into an audience.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Book

  

Robert Southey : [extracts from the "Epics" published in the "Monthly Review"]

'When Southey becomes as modest as his predecessor Milton, and publishes his Epics in duodecimo, I will read 'em, - a Guinea a book is somewhat exorbitant, nor have I the opportunity of borrowing the Work. The extracts from it in the Monthly Review, and the short passages in your Watchman seem to me much superior to any thing in his partnership account with Lovell.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from book in periodical.

  

Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Religious Musings

'Your poems I shall procure forthwith. There were noble lines in what you inserted in one of your Numbers from Religious Musings, but I thought them elaborate. I am somewhat glad that you have given up that Paper - it must have been dry, unprofitable, and of "dissonant mood" to your disposition.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lamb      Print: Serial / periodical, Extracts from poems in periodical.

 

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