Melbourne: A Biography of William Lamb 2nd Viscount Melbourne

Biographies of American literary figures did not come into currency until the country began to explore the persons and conditions that made that emerging literature possible. Walt ...

P>"Charles Lamb was not a poet or essayist or critic-he was a person." This, we are told by Mr. Priestley, was Sir Walter Raleigh's saying, and, given the indulgence due to an o...

Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia (1820–25) are often seen as minor contributions to the Romantic tradition, and the essays themselves playfully foreground their own minority. This art...

Robert Bearman’s book Shakespeare’s Money (2016) can be considered the first economic biography of William Shakespeare; but it is also the latest specimen of an innovative trend in...

In these words, in a letter to Wordsworth dated January 30, 1801, Charles Lamb spoke of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Some readers continue to echo Mrs. Barbauld's c...