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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
- The essays of Elia
- Stories for children
- Poetry for children
- The last essays of Elia
- Poems on various subjects
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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
- The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research
· 1989 · cited 28,422x
- Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,894x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 22,016x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,959x
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Quotes
- “Severe and saintly righteousnessComposed the clear white bridal dress;Jesus, the Son of Heaven's high King Bought with his blood the marriage ring”
- “I have something more to do than to feel.”
- “I have had playmates, I have had companions,In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days—All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”
- “For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.”
- “Please to blot out gentle hearted, and substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-ey'd, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the Gentleman in question.”
- “Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.”
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- date of birth
- 1775-02-10
- date of death
- 1834-12-27
- pseudonym
- Elia
- name in native language
- Charles Lamb
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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".