Charles Lamb

Lamb’s Prose Style in ‘Dream Children: A Reverie’

On: June 9, 2025

All of Lamb’s major trademarks as an essayist are to be found in this work: overall, a relaxed and colloquial voice and a genteel sensibility incorporating elements of humour, whimsy, strong personal recollection and touches of pathos. All these mark him out as one of the great exponents of theContinue Reading

Blend of Humour and Pathos in Lamb’s Essays

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On: June 9, 2025

In: Essays of Elia

Humour may be described as an extreme sensitiveness to the true proportion of things and pathos that appeals to our feelings of compassion and evokes sympathy. Charles Lamb is a great artist in showing humour and pathos in a single row. He had as keen a perception of the funnyContinue Reading

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Charles Lamb (1775–1834) was an eminent English essayist, poet, and critic, best remembered for his charming and deeply personal essays collected in Essays of Elia. Born in London, Lamb spent much of his life working as a clerk at the East India Company. Despite his modest professional life, he leftContinue Reading