Charles Lamb
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Charles Lamb was a British writer from the late 1700s and early 1800s who is best known for his essays, poetry, and interest in old books and manuscripts. He matters because he was an influential literary figure of his time whose work helped shape the essay as a popular form of writing.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 10 February 1775
- Died
- 27 December 1834
- Works
- 821
Top works
- Plays and dramatic essays
- The adventures of Ulysses
- Essays and sketches
- Selected essays. Letters. Poems
- Poems, letters, and remains
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 42
- Total plays
- 352
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,533x
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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).
Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".