The Letters of Charles Lamb (Volume 1) - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES. CHAPTER I 1796-1800. The Letters of this period are chiefly addressed to Coleridge, then at Bristol. They relate the sad fortunes of the Lamb family, arising out of the death of the mother in September 1796. They are also largely critical, and deal with Coleridge's first published poems, and the joint volume in which Lamb and Charles Lloyd made their earliest appearance in print Letter I (p. 1).--Southey had just published his Joan of Arc, in quarto. He had produced two years before at Bristol, in conjunction with Robert Lovell, Poems by Bion and Moschus. Charles Valentine Le Grice, here mentioned, was schoolfellow with Lamb and Coleridge at Christ's Hospital, as also was James White. (For Le Grice, see Diet. Nat. Biog.) The latter published his Original Letters of Sir John Falstaff in this year. They were dedicated, in a manifestly satirical spirit, to "Master Samuel Irelaunde." The allusions in the letter to Coleridge's "Numbers" are to the weekly issue of his Watchman, which first appeared on March 1, 1796, and expired on May 13. Condones ad Populum, or, Addresses to the People, appeared in November 1795. Letter II (p. 3).--Poems on Various Subjects, by S. T. Coleridge, late of Jesus College, Cambridge, was published this year, and it is to this volume, or the proof-sheets of it sent for inspection, that Lamb here refers as "your poems." The volume contained four sonnets signed C. L., and Coleridge's Preface announced that they "were written by Mr. Charles Lamb of the India House." The other sonnets by Lamb here submitted to Coleridge's opinion appeared in the second edition of Coleridge's Poems, in 1797. The story of the preparation of these small volumes of verse may be read, concurrently with these VOL. I. 2 B letters, in...