Poems, Plays, and Rosamund Gray
by Charles Lamb
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150693601
Paperback|9781150693601
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES TO "POEMS AND PLAYS" Rosamund Gray (p. i) Written in 1798, when Lamb was emerging slowly from the gloom of his immediate past and had just resumed those literary preoccupations, if not those literary ambitions, which had been so tragically broken off in September 1796, Rosamund Gray is charged, above almost every other work of his, with biographical, psychological, and literary interest. It affords the material for an extended study from all these points of view: a study for which, however, this is not the occasion, or at least not the opportunity. Therefore beyond advising the faithful student of Lamb to return as often as possible to Rosamund Gray--from reading his Poems, from reading his Essays, from reading his Letters, and from reading whatever that is worth reading has been written about him--I shall only say a couple of words about one question that has been raised in connection with this strange little work. How far, it has been asked, had it a foundation in fact? And something that has the look of being a sort of affirmative reply has been given. We are told that there was a Rosamund Gray, and that she lived near Widford in very truth, and that, more by token, her cottage is there to testify even unto this day; also, that she was that visionary first love of Charles Lamb, the Anna of the Poems, the Alice W n of the Essays, and that her name was Ann Simmons, and she married a pawnbroker. Not to say that there is anything incongruous in this, there certainly seems to be a superfluity of circumstance. The evidence proves too much and too little. The "original"of Rosamund Gray should have been some young girl living under circumstances like those described in the story, one whose life should have been blighted by the same...
| ISBN-13 | 9781150693601 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150693606 |
| Weight | 0.94 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.65 In |
| List Price | $20.68 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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