Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb (born February 10, 1775 in London , † December 27, 1834 in Edmonton , now the London Borough of Enfield ) was an English poet .
Life
Charles Lamb was employed by the East India Company as a secretary from 1792 to 1825 .
As a writer, he first appeared in London Magazine (under the name Elia) with essays (collected in 1823 and 1833) in which he presented his cheerful philosophy of life. His poems are mostly lyrical in content, more dandy than enthusiastic, but full of tenderness and grace. The poem The old familiar faces translated by Ferdinand Freiligrath can be regarded as a type of his poetry .
His Tale of Rosamond Gray (1798) and the Tales from Shakespeare 1807, 2 volumes that he wrote together with his sister Mary Ann Lamb (1765-1847), found general approval .
In his Specimens of English dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare (London 1808, 2 volumes; last printed in Bohns Antiquarian library , 1854) he pointed to the simplicity and purity of the diction of the old dramatists, whom he himself used in his tragedy John Woodvil (1801) aspired to.
His album verses (London 1830) contain occasional poems.
Works (selection)
- The adventures of Odysseus . Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-458-34822-0 .
- Tales based on Shakespeare . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-8000-5068-4 .
literature
- Alfred Ainger: Charles Lamb (English men of letters). Macmillan, London 1932 (reprinted from London 1884 edition).
- SaraH Burton: A double life. A biography of Charles and Mary Lamb . Viking, London 2003, ISBN 0-670-89399-4 .
- David Cecil: A portrait of Charles Lamb . Constable Books, London 1983, ISBN 0-09-464450-0 .
- Percy H. Fitzgerald: Charles Lamb. His friends, his haunts and his books . Library Edition, Folcroft 1979 (reprinted from London 1866 edition).
- Felicity James: Charles Lamb, Coleridge and Wordsworth . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2008, ISBN 978-0-230-54524-3 .
- Thomas N. Talfourd : The first life and letters of Charles Lamb. A study . University Press, Columbus, Ohio 1935 (reprinted London 1935 edition).
- EMW Tillyard: Lamb's Criticism. A Selection from the Literary Criticism of Charles Lamb . 1923.
- Horst Weber: Study on the form of the essay by Charles Lamb . Winter, Heidelberg 1964.
- Lamb, Charles . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 16 : L - Lord Advocate . London 1911, p. 104 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles Lamb in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lamb, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1834 |
| Place of death | Edmonton |