Poems and Plays by Charles and Mary Lamb (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Poems and Plays by Charles and Mary LambIn order, however, that the scheme of Lamb's 1818 edition of his Works might be preserved, I have indicated in the text the position in the Works occupied by all the poems that in the present volume have been printed earlier.The chronological order, in so far as it has been followed, emphasises the dividing line between Lamb's poetry and his verse. As he grew Older his poetry, for the most part, passed into his prose. His best and truest poems, with few exceptions, belong to the years before, say, 1805, when he was thirty. After this, follow ing a long interval Of silence, came the brief satirical outburst of 1812, in The Examiner, and the longer one, in 1820, in The Champion, then, after another interval, during which he was busy as Elia, came the period of album verses, which lasted to the end. The impulse to write personal prose, which was quickened in Lamb by the London Magazine in 1820, seems to have taken the place of his Old ambition to be a poet. In his later and more mechanical period there were, however, occasional in spirations as when he wrote the sonnet on Work, in 1819, on Leisure, in 1821 the lines in his own Album, in 1827, and, pre-eminently, the poem On an Infant Dying as Soon as Born, in 1827. Lamb seems never quite to have satisfied himself that it was not in him to write successfully for the stage.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.