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Cover Title Page Contents About the Author Note on the Text Introduction Selected Prose

EARLY ESSAYS AND SKETCHES (1811–14)

1. On the Genius and Character of Hogarth 2. On the Tragedies of Shakspeare 3. Edax on Appetite 4. Hospita on the Immoderate Indulgence of the Pleasures of the Palate 5. The Good Clerk, a Character 6. Wordsworth’s ‘Excursion’

FROM ESSAYS OF ELIA (1823) AND LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA (1833)

7. The Two Races of Men 8. A Quakers’ Meeting 9. The Old and the New Schoolmaster 10. Imperfect Sympathies 11. Witches, and Other Night-Fears 12. Grace Before Meat 13. My First Play 14. Distant Correspondents 15. On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century 16. Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading 17. Confessions of a Drunkard 18. A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig 19. A Bachelor’s Complaint of the Behaviour of Married People 20. A Character of the Late Elia 21. The Old Margate Hoy 22. The Superannuated Man 23. The Convalescent 24. Stage Illusion 25. Sanity of True Genius 26. Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art

ESSAYS AND SKETCHES (1821–7)

27. Review of the First Volume of Hazlitt’s Table-Talk, 1821 28. Letter of Elia to Robert Southey, Esquire 29. Readers Against the Grain 30. A Vision of Horns 31. The Illustrious Defunct 3272/ 32. Many Friends 33. Dog Days

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EVERY–DAY BOOK

34. A Character 35. Charles Lamb’s Autobiography

LETTERS

1. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 2. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 5. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 6. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 7. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 8. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 9. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10. To Thomas Manning 11. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 12. To Thomas Manning 13. To Robert Lloyd 14. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 15. To Thomas Manning 16. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 17. To Thomas Manning 18. To Thomas Manning 19. To Thomas Manning 20. To Thomas Manning 21. To William Wordsworth 22. To Robert Lloyd 23. To Thomas Manning 24. To Thomas Manning 25. To Robert Lloyd 26. To Walter Wilson 27. To Robert Lloyd 28. To Thomas Manning 29. To Thomas Manning 30. To Thomas Manning 31. To Thomas Manning 32. To Thomas Manning 33. To William Wordsworth 34. To William Wordsworth 35. To William Wordsworth 36. To Charles Chambers 37. To Mrs William Wordsworth 38. To Dorothy Wordsworth 39. To Joseph Cottle 40. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 41. To William Wordsworth 42. To John Clare 43. To Walter Wilson 44. To Bernard Barton 45. To Bernard Barton 46. To Bernard Barton 47. To Bernard Barton 48. To Bernard Barton 49. To Bernard Barton 50. To Thomas Manning 51. To William Wordsworth 52. To Samuel Taylor Coleridge 53. To Bernard Barton 54. To Bernard Barton 55. To John Bates Dibdin 56. To Peter George Patmore 57. To Mrs Basil Montagu 58. To Barron Field 59. To Bernard Barton 60. To Bryan Waller Procter 61. To Henry Crabb Robinson 62. To Henry Crabb Robinson 63. To Henry Crabb Robinson 64. To Bernard Barton 65. To James Gillman 66. To Mary Shelley 67. To William Wordsworth 68. To Dr J. Vale Asbury 69. To Basil Montagu 70. To George Dyer 71. To Thomas Allsop 72. To Maria Fryer 73. To Henry Francis Cary

Notes Biographical Index of Correspondents and Contemporaries Appendix One: The Party at Haydon’s Appendix Two: A Selection of Lamb’s Notes From Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets (1808)

NOTE ON THE CASE IS ALTERED, A COMEDY, BY BEN JOHNSON. NOTE ON A NEW WONDER: A WOMAN NEVER VEXT, A COMEDY BY ROWLEY. NOTE ON A FAIR QUARREL, A COMEDY, BY MIDDLETON AND ROWLEY. NOTE ON THE RICH JEW OF MALTA, A TRAGEDY, BY MARLOWE.

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EARLY ESSAYS AND SKETCHES (1811–14)

1. On the Genius and Character of Hogarth

Page 7 Page 9 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15

2. On the Tragedies of Shakspeare

Page 28 Page 33 Page 41 Page 43

5. The Good Clerk, a Character

Page 60 Page 62

6. Wordsworth’s ‘Excursion’

Page 68 Page 73

FROM ESSAYS OF ELIA (1823) AND LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA (1833)

7. The Two Races of Men

Page 84

8. A Quakers’ Meeting

Page 89

9. The Old and the New Schoolmaster

Page 97

10. Imperfect Sympathies

Page 105 Page 107

11. Witches, and Other Night-Fears

Page 117

17. Confessions of a Drunkard

Page 160

26. Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art

Page 222

ESSAYS AND SKETCHES (1821–7)

31. The Illustrious Defunct 3272/

Page 266

35. Charles Lamb’s Autobiography

Page 281

LETTERS

37. To Mrs William Wordsworth

Page 357

57. To Mrs Basil Montagu

Page 407

Appendix Two: A Selection of Lamb’s Notes From Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets (1808)

Page 439

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