Poems and Plays (Esprios Classics)

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). Charles and Mary both suffered periods of mental illness and Charles spent six weeks in a psychiatric hospital during 1795. He was however already making his name as a poet. Despite Lamb's bouts of melancholia both he and his sister enjoyed an active and rich social life. Their London quarters became a kind of weekly salon for many of the most outstanding theatrical and literary figures of the day.