Charles Lamb
(1775–1834),was born in London. His father, the Lovel of ‘The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple’ in Essays of Elia, was the clerk to Samuel Salt, a lawyer, whose house in Crown Office Row was Lamb's ...
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The Oxford Companion to German Literature (3 ed.)
a term of French and English origin (Montaigne, 1580, Bacon, 1597), was first applied to German essays by
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
a contained piece of informal *prose [30], meditating and illustrating a single idea or social phenomenon, which became more
Lady Morgan
(1783?–1859),novelist: buried in London (Kensington: Brompton cemetery). The Wild Irish Girl 1806.
life-writing
A modern term meant to cover the general realm of non-fictional writings about the lives, experiences, and memories of individual people or small groups of people. Thus although excluding most other ...
Lord Orford Horace Walpole
(fourth earl of Orford) (1717–97), fourth son of Sir Robert Walpole, travelled in France and Italy with Gray during 1739–41, and met in Florence Sir Horace Mann, who became one of his most valued ...
prose
The form of written language that is not organized according to the formal patterns of verse; although it will have some sort of rhythm and some devices of repetition and balance, these are not ...
Robert Southey
(1774–1843).Southey had a strange career, moving from extreme radicalism in the 1790s to a gloomy conservatism by the 1810s. Born in Bristol, he was educated at Westminster and Balliol College, ...
William Hazlitt
(b Maidstone, Kent, 10 Apr. 1778; d London, 18 Sept. 1830).English critic. He is known mainly for his literary criticism, but he also wrote much on the fine arts and he ranks as the most important ...
William Taylor
(1765–1836),author and translator, who did much to popularize German literature through his translations of Bürger's ballads (see Lenore) and works by G. E. Lessing and Goethe. He was a friend and ...
