Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xcv, 292 pages, leaf of plates, viii pages of plates)
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illustrations
ISBN:
0801409306
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0801409772
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1501727516
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9780801409301
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9781501727511
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9780801409776
Content:
All of the available letters of Charles Lamb, a master of the English essay, and his sister Mary Anne published in this definitive, scrupulously edited work. The letters, many of them written to illustrious figures of the Romantic period, are generally agreed to rank among the finest in the English language. Transcribing where possible from the originals or facsimiles, Professor Marrs corrects textual errors found in previous editions, and he pays particular attention to establishing precise dates for the correspondence. He includes letters that were omitted from the last collection (published in 1935 and long out of print), and he has uncovered more than eighty letters never published before. The Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb totals five or six volumes, and presents nearly 1200 letters written by Charles and Mary, singly or together. The correspondence is fully annotated, the volumes are illustrated, and the holographic idiosyncrasies of the originals are rendered typographically wherever possible. Rich in revelations about the extraordinary lives of the Lambs, these beautifully written letters are an inexhaustible store of information about the Romantic era and its major figures-Wordsworth, Keats, and Coleridge. The publication of unexpurgated and authoritative texts is an important literary event
Note:
Includes index
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Published in the United States: 1975
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0801409306
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 Letters of Charles and Mary Anne Lamb Ithaca London : Cornell University Press, [1976]
Language:
English
URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvfrxs7x
Author information:
Lamb, Charles 1775-1834
Author information:
Lamb, Mary 1764-1847
