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The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date February 10, 2015
Pages 188
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781505217278
ISBN-10 150521727X
Dimensions 0.43 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $14.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: "[...]porter,—a noontide meal for a hodman,—and the hour midnight! One is reminded, à propos of Miss Lamb's robust viands, that Elia somewhere confesses to "an occasional nightmare;" "but I do not," he adds, "keep a whole stud of them." To go deeper into this matter, to speculate upon the possible germs, the first vague intimations to the mind of Coleridge of the weird spectra of "The Ancient Mariner," the phantasmagoria of "Kubla Khan," would be, perhaps, over-refining. "Barry Cornwall," too, Lamb tells us, "had his tritons and his nereids gambolling before him in nocturnal visions." No wonder! It is not intended here to re-thresh the straw left by Talfourd, Fitzgerald, Canon Ainger, and others, in the hope of discovering something new about Charles[...]".

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