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Biography & Autobiography Literary

Humble Men in Company

The Unlikely Friendship of Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

by (author) Kirby Evans

Publisher
Cape Breton University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2011
Category
Literary, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897009512
    Publish Date
    Sep 2011
    List Price
    $24.95

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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.

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