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Charles Lamb (10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834) was an English essayist, ... he deemed William Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful ...
Charles Knight said that in Beer Street Hogarth had been "rapt beyond himself" and given the characters depicted in the scene an air of "tipsy jollity". [29] Charles Lamb considered Gin Lane sublime, and focused on the almost invisible funeral procession that Hogarth had added beyond the broken-down wall at the rear of the scene as mark of his ...
William Hogarth FRSA (/ ˈ h oʊ ɡ ɑːr θ /; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art.
Charles Lamb dismissed the series as mere caricature, not worthy to be included alongside Hogarth's other work, but rather something produced as the result of a "wayward humour" outside of his normal habits. [26] Art historian Allan Cunningham also had strong feelings about the series: [27] I wish it had never been painted.
Horace Walpole (the son of Robert Walpole, the First Lord of the Treasury, who had pushed through the Licensing Act) rated Strolling Actresses as Hogarth's greatest work "for wit and imagination, without any other end", but Charles Lamb found the characters lacking in expressiveness, while acknowledging the depiction of their activity and ...
Erwin, Timothy. "Hogarth and the Aesthetics of Nationalism." Huntington Library Quarterly 64,no. 3/4 (2001): 383-410. Hogarth, William, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Charles Lamb. The Works of William Hogarth Reproduced by the Heliotype Process from the Original Engravings. Boston: Osgood, 1876. Hoppit, Julian. A Land of Liberty?: England ...
The Charles Lamb Society (CLS) celebrates and contributes to scholarship on the life and work of Charles Lamb (1775-1834) and Mary Lamb (1764-1847). Charles Lamb was an English essayist and poet whose literary circle included important figures in Romanticism such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Lamb's main correspondents were the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Thomas Hood, Bernard Barton, Mary Matilda Betham and Bryan Procter; the philosopher and novelist William Godwin; the music critic William Ayrton; the publishers Edward Moxon, William Hone, Charles Ollier, Charles Cowden Clarke and J. A. Hessey; the statistician John Rickman; the actress Fanny ...