Charles-Lamb(查尔斯兰姆)人物简介-英国文学家PPT参考课件

Family Background
• Lamb was born in London, the son of Elizabeth Field and John Lamb.
• His father John Lamb was a lawyer's clerk. as the assistant to a barrister named Samuel Salt.
Biography
Productive years 1792—1822 Lamb worked for the East India Company in
London when he was seventeen. When he was twenty years old Lamb suffered a period of insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. During this period, lamb has written a lot of famous works.
Wordsworth also described him as a firm Christian in the poem Written After the Death of Charles Lamb.
His Mental Illness
.....The six weeks that finished last year and began this your very humble servant spent very agreeably in a mad house at Hoxton—I am got somewhat rational now, and don’t bite any one. But mad I was—and many a vagary my imagination played with me, enough to make a volume if all told. ....
The Style of Lamb’s Essay
It shines out conspicuously in his style, which has an antique air and is redolent of the peculiarities of the 17th century.
His style is not so much an imitation as a reflection of the older writers; for in spirit he made himself their contemporary. A confirmed habit of studying them in preference to modern literature had made something of their style natural to him; and long experience had rendered it not only easy and familiar but habitual.
The Evaluation
Lamb has his own difficulties, but he had always showed his sympathy to the lower classes, such as the poor, the woman, the children and the disabled. Berrell, a critic said that Lamp knew he had been squeamish, and know the burden of his life to bear, so he tried to hide in trifles, to play the fool, so as to avoid the excitement into madness.
Features of Lamb’s Essays
The most important feature of his essays is humor. He starts with manner of subjects, but no matter what his themes is, he generally diverges into some personal incident or opinion. This done with such serio-comic humor that it becomes the most attractive feature of his essay.
He had an extreme and almost exclusive partiality for earlier prose writers, particularly for Montaigne, as well as for the dramatists of Shakespeare's time; and the care with which he studied them is apparent in all he ever wrote.
Religious Views
It has been pointed out that spirituality played an important role in Lamb's personal life, and that, although he was not a churchman, and disliked organized religion, he yet "sought consolation in religion," as shown by letters to Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Bernard Barton, in which he described the New Testament as his "best guide" for life, and where he talked about how he used to read the Psalms for one or two hours without getting tired.
Biography
Twilight years 1823—1834 Lamb and his sister had moved their house
several times. Finally ,they moved to Edmonton, and lamb was passed away there.
• Both Charles and his sister Mary suffered a period of mental illness.
• In 1796, his sister suffered the mental illness and killed her mother.
• Sister's mental illness attacks periodically, lamb assumes the obligation to take care of her sister.
Biography
Early years 1775—1791 Lamb was born in London, the son of
Elizabeth Field and John Lamb. It was there in Crown Office Row that Charles Lamb was born and spent his youth. Lamb studied at Christ‘s Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Features of Lamb’s Essays
Lamb was especially fond of old writers. The style of Lamb is old-fashion with reminiscences of Elizabethan writers. His vocabulary is often archaic and so are his sentences, which tend to become involved. He is fond of the semicolon and parenthesis. His style is also scholarly and bookish. Many of his phrases are copied from the old books that he loved to read.
The London Magazine -- 1820 Published -- 1823 Tone -- personal and conversational
• An English children's book • Written by charles lamb and
his sister mary lamb in 1807 • Purpose • Language • Republtures of Lamb’s Essays
His essays are intensely personal. He indulged in his own contemplation and imagination. He didn’t care about national democratic movement or the liberation movement at home and abroad. He was not actually concerned about the miserable conditions of the poor. To him, literature was a means to express his own subjective world and to escape from the sordid.
Born: 10-Feb-1775 Birthplace: London, England Died: 27-Dec-1834 Location of death: Edmonton, Middlesex, England Cause of death: Erysipelas
Known for: Essays of Elia Tales from Shakespeare
Religious Views
Other papers have also dealt with his Christian beliefs.
As his friend Samuel Coleridge, Lamb was sympathetic to Priestleyan Unitarianism and was a dissenter, yet, he was described by Coleridge himself as one whose "faith in Jesus had been preserved" even after the family tragedy.
The Style of Lamb’s Essay
Refined and exquisite humor, a genuine and cordial vein of pleasantry and heart-touching pathos.
His fancy is distinguished by great delicacy and tenderness; and even his conceits (幻想)are imbued(灌输)with human feeling and passion.