Discuss Lamb as a Romantic essayist.
Charles Lamb, an English writer is best
known for his essays. Although he wrote poems and books, he is mainly
known as an essayist. E.V.Lucas, his principal biographer, has called him the
most loved figure in English Literature.
Charles
Lamb in his Essays of Elia, uses the pseudonym of Elia. Dream Children:
A Reverie, is an essay from this collection which was published in the form of
a book, this was later followed by the second volume titled Last Essays to
Elia. Lamb’s writing style by nature is very romantic.
The Essays are very personal, as they are somewhat fictionalized
stories of himself. It tells us of what his life would have been had he made
different decisions in his life. In his essays, he mentions his family members
often with different names. In Dream Children: A Reverie, he fanatisizes his
life, had he married his beloved Ann Simmons, who he calls Alice W. in the Elia
essays.
Lamb is chiefly remembered for his “Elia” essays, which are
celebrated for their witty and ironic treatment of everyday subjects. The
“Elia” essays are characterized by Lamb’s personal tone, narrative ease, and
wealth of literary allusions. Never didactic, the essays treat ordinary
subjects in a nostalgic, fanciful way by combining humor, pathos, and a
sophisticated irony ranging from gentle to scathing.
Lamb conjures up humour and pathos in his ‘Elian’ essays.
Although Dream Children begins on a merry note, the dark side of life soon
forces itself upon Lamb’s attention and the comic attitude gives way to
melancholy at the end of the essay. Throughout the essay Lamb presents his
children in such a way that we never guess that they are merely fragments of
his imagination – their movements, their reactions, and their expressions are all
realistic. It is only at the end of the essay that we realize that the entire
episode with his children is a merely a daydream. We are awakened by a painful
realization of the facts.............................
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