Charles Lamb war ein englischer Dichter.
Charles Lamb war 1792–1825 bei der Ostindien-Kompanie als Sekretär angestellt und starb am 27. Dezember 1834 in Edmonton.
Als Schriftsteller trat er zuerst im London Magazine mit Essays auf, in denen er seine heitere Lebensphilosophie vortrug, und welche sich dem Besten anreihen, was die englische Literatur in diesem Fach besitzt.
Seine Gedichte sind meist lyrischen Inhalts, mehr tändelnd als begeistert, aber voll Zartheit und Anmut. Als Typus seiner Poesie kann das von Ferdinand Freiligrath übersetzte Gedicht The old familiar faces gelten.
Allgemeinen Beifall fanden seine Tale of Rosamond Grey und die Tales from Shakespeare 1807, 2 Bde., an welchen auch seine Schwester Mary Ann Anteil hatte.
In seinen Specimens of English dramatic poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare wies er auf die Einfachheit und Reinheit der Diktion der alten Dramatiker hin, die er selbst in seiner Tragödie John Woodvil anstrebte.
Seine Album verses enthalten Gelegenheitsgedichte.
„Leichtgläubigkeit ist eines Mannes Schwäche und eines Kindes Stärke.“
Essays <br class="br">Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. - Witches, and Other Night Fears. In: The London Magazine, Oct. 1821, p. 385 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=FsAYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA385&dq=credulity
zitiert in: Stephen Hawking: Das Universum in der Nussschale. Hoffmann & Campe, 2001, Kapitel 2, S. 39 <br class="br">Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me less, for I never think about them. - Letter to Mr. Manning, 2nd January 1802, books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=vcMdAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA155
Essays <br class="br">Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple. - A Bachelor's Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=LNUeAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA146
Essays
Books think for me. - Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading
John Woodvil, 3. Akt / John Woodvil <br class="br">Original engl.: "These high and gusty relishes of life, sure, // Have no allayings of mortality in them." - John Woodvil. A Tragedy. Act the Third. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=O8EwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA534
„Wie Krankheit die Dimension des Ichs vergrößert!“
Essays <br class="br">How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! - The Convalescent. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=EvtLAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA188
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
Letter to Wordsworth (April 26, 1816)
“The Young Catechist” 1827.
Letter to Wordsworth (January 30, 1801)
“Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony; but organically I am incapable of a tune.”
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
A Chapter on Ears; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
My First Play; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia
Popular Fallacies: XI, That We Must Not Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
Autobiographical Recollections (Leslie) ; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“For thy sake, tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.”
A Farewell to Tobacco (1805)
“The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.”
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
Oxford in the Vacation.
Essays of Elia (1823)
“Riddle of destiny, who can show
What thy short visit meant, or know
What thy errand here below?”
On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born (1827).
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
New Year's Eve.
Essays of Elia (1823)
“It is good to love the unknown.”
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
Valentine's Day; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
Imperfect Sympathies.
Essays of Elia (1823)
“When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!”
Letter to Proctor (January 22, 1829), in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2000), p. 526
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
The Two Races of Men.
Essays of Elia (1823)
To the Editor of the Every-Day Book; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Presents, I often say, endear absents.”
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
A Dissertation upon Roast Pig; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
“Any thing awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.”
Letter to Southey (August 9, 1815)
Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia
“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
“Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.”
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
Witches, and Other Night Fears.
Essays of Elia (1823)
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
Valentine's Day.
Essays of Elia (1823)
A Vision Of Repentance, as quoted in Works of Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb.
“A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.”
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Essays of Elia (1823)
Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia
“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
Charles Lamb buch Essays of Elia
The Two Races of Men.
Essays of Elia (1823)
