Biography & Autobiography Literary
Humble Men in Company
The Unlikely Friendship of Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Publisher
- Cape Breton University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Category
- Literary, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897009512
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
The Romantic period, an intellectual revolution of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was an era of literary greats – heroic individualists and artists whose pioneering examples would elevate society and legitimize the individual imagination as a critical authority, freeing us from classical notions of form. It was also an era of great literary friendships: Byron and Shelley, Pope and Swift, Mill and Carlyle – Coleridge and Lamb, to name a few.
About the author
Kirby Evans, opens up a new appreciation for the ways these unlikely friends shared the heroism of their age – the passions of an intellectual life. So different and yet so complementary, Coleridge and Lamb provide us with a unique and complex alternative to the more flamboyant relationships of their contemporaries. Coleridge seems to glory in the revolutionary break with established values, while Lamb accepts and submits.
