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    Charles Lamb was a prominent English essayist from the Romantic period. While he did not see much success as a poet, he excelled at writing prose and is considered one of the best essayists of his era. His most famous work is a collection of essays titled "Essays of Elia". Lamb is renowned for his distinctive style that blended humor, pathos, and humanity. His essays provide intimate glimpses into his own personality and experiences through their informal, subjective nature. Overall, Lamb is remembered for establishing the modern definition of the essay and for his enduring wit and irony that engaged readers without allowing them to grow tired.

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    Charles Lamb was a prominent English essayist from the Romantic period. While he did not see much success as a poet, he excelled at writing prose and is considered one of the best essayists of his era. His most famous work is a collection of essays titled "Essays of Elia". Lamb is renowned for his distinctive style that blended humor, pathos, and humanity. His essays provide intimate glimpses into his own personality and experiences through their informal, subjective nature. Overall, Lamb is remembered for establishing the modern definition of the essay and for his enduring wit and irony that engaged readers without allowing them to grow tired.

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    Charles Lamb: Irony and Wit Is The Common Subject of His Essays. Nineteenth Century

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    Charles Lamb was a prominent English essayist from the Romantic period. While he did not see much success as a poet, he excelled at writing prose and is considered one of the best essayists of his era. His most famous work is a collection of essays titled "Essays of Elia". Lamb is renowned for his distinctive style that blended humor, pathos, and humanity. His essays provide intimate glimpses into his own personality and experiences through their informal, subjective nature. Overall, Lamb is remembered for establishing the modern definition of the essay and for his enduring wit and irony that engaged readers without allowing them to grow tired.

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    Charles Lamb

    Charles Lamb belongs to Romantic age. Lamb was a poet, fiction writer
    from romantic period and considers one of the most prominent essayists
    of all times. He remained one of the prime members of the lake poets
    and among all of the poets, William Wordsworth and S. T Coleridge was
    his dare and close friends. Although he did not achieve that much
    popularity as poet, however, later he utilized his full potential in writing
    prose and emerged as one of the best essayist of his era. Lamb is known
    for his collection of essays “Essays of Elia.” Elia is the narrator of his
    essays.
    Charles Lamb is considered one of the best romantic essayists. He is
    known as “prince of all essayists” in London. The modern definition of
    an essay is derived from Lamb essays. His essays are true example of
    comparison of modern essays.
    Irony and wit is the common subject of his essays. Nineteenth century
    is known for humor and nostalgias theme. His sentence structure shows
    that simultaneously he wind up both melancholic as well as joyful sense
    of humor in his essays. Due to his distinctive writing style his every
    essays is different in style and surprising. His wit did not allow the
    readers to make them bored and tiresome.
    One of the unique features of Lamb’s is the Autobiographical element.
    His essays are basically the revelation of his personality. In addition, his
    essays are informal and subjective unlike Bacon whose essays are
    formal and objective. Lamb in his famous essay “Christ’s Hospital”
    depicted his disgusting or futile experience of school. In his essays he is
    mostly talking about himself as a result many writers and readers thinks
    that he is egocentric and selfish. However, it is the only subject which he
    knows in depth.
    Unlike Bacon, Lamb tone is quite distinguished. His essays do not show
    advice and didactism. Instead of this, his prime focus is on “philosophy
    of life.” His essay does not mean to create pleasure for readers but
    himself. Lamb is not an authentic educator or didactic. His wisdom lies
    beneath his enduring nature.
    Humor, pathos and humanity are the striking features of his essays.
    The best example of all time can be observed in “Poor Relation”. He is
    a keen observer of the surrounding. His essays are full of excitement and
    tragic end. Sometimes he left his essays incomplete and the readers
    themselves brought up with their own conclusion. Lamb had witnessed
    the struggling life of “Chimney Sweepers” which made him
    humoristic. Overall his essays are confusing and the reader is unable to
    make distinction between tragedy and comedy.
    In a nutshell, as Charles Lamb was from Romantic era so their subject
    was regretting past. We saw autobiographical element and events from
    his past life. He did not achieve the sovereignty as a poet but remained
    an eminent essayist of all time.

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