Charles Lamb
1775
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1834
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Christ's Hospital
occupation: writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, children's writer
student of: William Wales
influenced by: Algernon Charles Swinburne
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". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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