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[Vol. I, with prose dedication to Coleridge, consists of (1) Poems;
(2) Sonnets; (3) Blank Verse; (4) John Woodvil, a Tragedy; (5) The
Witch, a Dramatic Sketch of the Seventeenth Century; (6) Curious
Fragments from a common-place-book of Robert Burton; (7) Rosamund
Gray, a Tale; (8) Recollections of Christ's Hospital. Of these (5) was
printed for the first time; (4) and (7) had already been published in earlier
volumes; and (8) had been printed in The Gentleman's Magazine for June
1813. The poetical portions of (6) were transferred to (1), which con-
sisted of twenty pieces, viz. two from Coleridge's volume of 1797; one
from Blank Verse, 1798; the two poetical fragments of Burton, and the
ballad from the German from John Woodvil; three from Poetry for
Children; one rptd from Tbe Examiner; one from The Reflector; the
hitherto unprinted Hester; and eight by Mary Lamb, of which six were
new, the remaining two being Helen and one from Poetry for Children.
(2) consisted of eleven sonnets, viz. four new; three from Coleridge's
volume of 1796; and four from his volume of 1797. Of the five pieces in
(3), one came from Lloyd's volume of 1796; three from Coleridge's volume
of 1797; and one from Blank Verse, 1798.
Vol. 11, with dedicatory sonnet to Martin Charles Burney, consists of
(1) Essays; (2) Letters under Assumed Signatures; (3) MrH-, a Farce.
The five essays in (1) include a revision of the notes to the Specimens of
1808, under the title, Characters of Dramatic Writers, contemporary
with Shakspeare; a new essay On the Poetical Works of George Wither;
and the essays on Hogarth, the tragedies of Shakspeare and Specimens
of the Writings of Fuller, which had appeared in The Reflector during
1811. Of seven letters in (2), one was from The Morning Post, 1802;
fiy from The Ref or, 1810 and 1811; and one from The Champion,
1814. (3), produced at Drury lane in December 1806, had already been
ptd at Philadelphia in 1813, under the title Mr H. , or Beware a Bad
Name. ]
The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb. New edn. 1836. 3rd edn. 1838.
The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life, by Talfourd, T. N.
2 vols. 1837. Revised and enlarged edn, by Hazlitt, W. C. (Bohn. )
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The Works of Charles Lamb. With a sketch of his life, by Talfourd, T. N.
3 vols. 1838.
[A reprint of Lamb's Works, 1818, with the addition of the two Elia
volumes and some letters. ]
The Works of Charles Lamb. New edn. [Ed. Talfourd, T. N. ) 5 parts.
1840.
[A reprint of Lamb's Works, 1818; the two Elia volumes; and Album
Verses, with additions to the last made in the Poetical Works of 1836.
The letters and Talfourd's life, published in 1837, were also included. ]
Final Memorials of Charles Lamb; consisting chiefly of his Letters not
before published, with sketches of some of his companions, by Talfourd,
T. N. 2 vols. 1848. (Included in later issues of Talfourd's edn of
Lamb's Works. ]
Eliana: being the hitherto uncollected writings of Charles Lamb. (Ed.
B[abson), J. E. ) Boston, 1864. London, 1864.
[This volume contained a large number of essays, tales and poems
rptd from various sources, and included The Adventures of Ulysses;
three tales from Mrs Leicester's School; and The Pawnbroker's Daughter,
a farce, which had been ptd in Blackwood's Magazine for January 1830.
Much of the collection had been ptd by the editor in The Atlantic Monthly
during 1863. ]
The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb, with an essay
on his life and genius by Purnell, T. , aided by the recollections of the
author's adopted daughter [i. e. Emma Isola, wife of the publisher,
Edward Moxon). 4 vols. 1870. [The first volume was originally issued
separately in 1868, with an essay by Sala, G. A. ]
The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Charles Lamb, from the original
edns, with cancelled passages restored, and many pieces now first col-
lected. Ed. and prefaced by Shepherd, R. H. 1874.
[The six tales contributed by Lamb to Tales from Shakespear were
now printed in a collected edn for the first time. A subsequent rpt
(1878) included Poetry for Children. ]
The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb, edited, with Notes and
Illustrations, by FitzGerald, Percy. 6 vols. 1875.
Dramatic Essays of Charles Lamb. Ed. Matthews, B. 1891.
Plays and Dramatic Essays. Ed. Dircks, R. 1893.
The Life and Works of Charles Lamb, with introductions and notes by
Ainger, Alfred. 12 vols. 1899-1900.
(Canon Ainger previously edited Mrs Leicester's School and Tales
from Shakespear (1878) and annotated selected volumes of Lamb's
works. These appeared in Macmillan's Eversley series in the following
order: Essays of Elia (i. e. Elia and The Last Essays), 1883; Poems,
Plays, and Miscellaneous Essays, 1884; Mrs Leicester's School and
other writings in prose and verse, 1885; Letters of Charles Lamb, newly
arranged, with additions, 2 vols. , 1888. ]
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Ed. Lucas, E. V. 7 vols. 1903-5.
The Works of Charles Lamb. Ed. Macdonald, William. 12 vols. 1903.
The Letters of Charles Lamb, in which many mutilated words and passages
have been restored to their original form; with letters never before
published, and facsimiles of original MS letters and poems. 5 vols.
Boston (Bibliophile soc. ), 1907. [Introduction by Harper, H. H. , with
notes of facsimile letters by Garnett, R. ]
The Works in Prose and Verse of Charles and Mary Lamb. Ed. Hutchinson,
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Bibliography
1
B. Separate Works
This list does not include the original appearance of individual poems
and essays in periodicals. For a detailed list of these in chronological order,
see Hutchinson's edn (1908) of the Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, vol. 1,
pp. xvii-xlvii, in which the growth of the collected edns of Lamb's works is
also traced.
Poems on Various Subjects by S. T. Coleridge. Bristol, 1796. (Including
four sonnets by Lamb. ]
Poems on the Death of Priscilla Farmer, by her grandson Charles Lloyd.
Bristol and London, 1796. [Including The Grandame, by Lamb. ]
Poems, by S. T. Coleridge. 2nd edn. Bristol and London, 1797. [Including
poems by Charles Lloyd and Poems, by Charles Lamb, of the India-
House. These, fifteen in number, included the five already published in
1796. ]
Blank Verse, by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb. 1798.
A Tale of Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret. 1798.
John Woodvil, a Tragedy. . . . To which are added, Fragments of Burton,
the Author of the Anatomy of Melancholy. 1802. [The Fragments of
Burton included the poems Hypochondriacus and A Ballad noting the
Difference of Rich and Poor. The volume also contained the stanzas
Helen, by Mary Lamb, and a Ballad from the German, viz. Thekla's
song in Schiller's Die Piccolomini. The latter had been printed in
Coleridge's Wallenstein, 1800. ]
The King and Queen of Hearts: with The Rogueries of the Knave who stole
away the Queen's Pies. 1805. [Anonymous. ) Ed. Lucas, E. V. 1902.
Tales from Shakespear. Designed for the Use of Young Persons. 2 vols.
1807. [By Charles and Mary Lamb: Charles's name alone appears on
the title-page. ]
Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, who lived about the Time of Shak-
speare: with Notes. 1808. New edn, including Lamb's extracts from
the Garrick Plays which were ptd in Hone's Table Book for 1826.
(Bohn. ) 1854, and later issues.
The Adventures of Ulysses. 1808. Ed. Lang, A. 1890.
Mrs Leicester's School: or, the History of Several Young Ladies, related by
themselves. 1809. [By Charles and Mary Lamb: anonymous. ]
Poetry for Children, entirely original. By the Author of Mrs Leicester's
School. 2 vols. 1809. [By Charles and Mary Lamb. ]
Prince Dorus: or, Flattery put out of Countenance. A poetical version of
an ancient tale. 1811. [Anonymous. ]
Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in The London
Magazine. 1823.
[Twenty-eight essays, including the greater part of Lamb's contribu-
tions to The London Magazine from August 1820 to November 1822.
Three, viz. On Some of the Old Actors; On the Artificial Comedy of the
Last Century; and On the Acting of Mr Munden, were a revision and
rearrangement of three essays which had appeared in that magazine in
February, April and October 1822. One, Valentine's Day, had originally
been ptd in The Examiner for 14, 15 February 1819, and had appeared
also in The Indicator for 14 February 1821. ]
Later edns. Numerous edns exist of both series of Elia. Among these
may be mentioned the rpt of the first series, with a few reminiscences of
the author and his friends, by Ollier, Edmund, 1867. Ollier's short
preface was prefixed to a popular edn of both series, 1875. The Essays
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issued with a memoir by Barry Cornwall (Procter, B. W. ), 2 vols. , 1879.
Ainger's edn of 1883 has been noted above (sect. A). Both series were
ed. by Birrell, A. , 2 vols. , 1888; and rpts under the same editorship ap-
peared in 1890 (1 vol. ) and 1900 (2 vols. ) A valuable edn of Elia, with
notes by Hallward, N. L. and Hill, S. C. was published in 1895; and was
succeeded in 1900 by the Last Essays, with notes by Hallward, N. L.
and introduction by Hill, S. C. Both series were ed. by Lucas, E. V. ,
1902: he also contributed notes to an illustrated edn of the first series
in the same year. Other edns are those of Bayne, T. , with introduction
by Birrell, A. , 1903; and of Thompson, A. H. , 2 vols. , Cambridge, 1913.
Album Verses, with a Few Others. 1830.
[Forty-two pieces, of which twenty-five were new. The remaining
seventeen had appeared in various periodicals between 1819 and 1829.
The volume also included The Wife's Trial, or The Intruding Widow,
a dramatic poem, already ptd in Blackwood's Magazine for December
1828. ]
The Last Essays of Elia. Being a Sequel to Essays published under that
name. 1833.
[A pirated second series of Elia had been published at Philadelphia
in 1828. This included ten essays from The London Magazine, after-
wards ptd in The Last Essays of Elia, and the Character of the Late
Elia, which became the preface of the authentic volume. Six other
essays from The London Magazine, including Guy Faux, which originally
had appeared in The Reflector, were not printed in 1833. Four others
were rpts from the Works of 1818, while two more were by Procter,
B. W. , and one by Cunningham, Allan.
The volume of 1833 consisted of the preface already mentioned and
twenty-four essays, or thirty-nine, if each of the sixteen Popular Fallacies
be counted as a separate essay. Sixteen essays were rptd from The
London Magazine (July 1822-August 1825); three from The English-
man's Magazine; one from Moxon's Reflector and The Athenaeum; one
from Hone's Table-Book; and the Popular Fallacies and two essays
which had been ptd under the same heading, from The New Monthly
Magazine. As to later edns of the Last Essays of Elia, see note to Elia,
ante. ]
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C. Biography and Criticism
See, also, the various introductions to edns of Lamb's Works mentioned
under sections A and B, ante.
Ainger, A. Charles Lamb, a biography. (English Men of Letters series. )
1882.
The Letters of Charles Lamb. -How I traced Charles Lamb in Hert-
fordshire. Lectures and Essays. Vol. 11. 1905.
Birrell, A. Lamb. Obiter Dicta. 2nd ser. 1887.
Lamb's Letters. Res Judicatae. 1892.
Clarke, Charles Cowden and Mary Cowden. Recollections of Writers. . .
with Letters of Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, etc. 1878.
De Quincey, T. Works. Ed. Masson, D. Vols. III, v. Edinburgh, 1890.
Ellinger, J. Über das Verhältnis von Lamb's Tales from Shakespear zu den
Shakespear-Stücken. Englische Studien. Vol. xix. Leipzig, 1894.
FitzGerald, Percy. Charles Lamb; his friends, his haunts, and his books.
1866.
Gilchrist, Mrs A. Mary Lamb. 1883.
Gilfillan, G. Charles Lamb. Galleries of literary portraits. Vol. 11. 1857.
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Harrison, F. Lamb and Keats. Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and other Essays.
1899.
Hazlitt, W. C. The Lambs: their lives, their friends, and their correspon-
dence, etc. 1897.
Lamb and Hazlitt. Further letters and records, etc. 1900.
Lucas, E. V. Bernard Barton and his friends: a record of quiet lives. 1893.
Charles Lamb and the Lloyds. 1898.
The Life of Charles Lamb. 2 vols. 1905.
Martin, B. E. In the footprints of Lamb. 1891.
Pater, W. Charles Lamb. Appreciations. 1889.
Paul, H. Charles Lamb. Stray Leaves. 1906.
Procter, B. W. (Barry Cornwall). Charles Lamb. 1866.
Swinburne, A. C. Charles Lamb and George Wither. Miscellanies. 1886.
Talfourd, T. N. See under section A, ante, for the first appearance of his
memoir. A new edn, under the title, Memoirs of Charles Lamb,
appeared, with notes by FitzGerald, Percy, 2 vols. , 1892.
Woodberry, G. E. Charles Lamb, or Elia. Makers of Literature. New
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II. WORKS OF WRITERS CONNECTED WITH LAMB
Bernard Barton
Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton, ed. by his
daughter. With a memoir by his son-in-law, Edward FitzGerald. 1849.
New edn. 1853.
Poems, by an Amateur. 1818.
Poems. 1820. 2nd edn with additions. 1821. 4th edn with additions. 1825.
Napoleon and other Poems. 1822. 2nd edn, entitled Minor Poems, including
Napoleon. 1824.
Poetic Vigils. 1824.
A Widow's Tale, and other poems. 1827.
Household Verses. 1845.
See, also, Lucas, E. V. , in section c, ante.
Charles Lloyd
Poems on various subjects. Carlisle, 1795.
Edmund Oliver. 2 vols. Bristol, 1798.
The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri, transl. from the Italian. 1815.
Nugae Canorae. Poems. 3rd edn with additions. 1819.
Isabel, a tale. 2 vols. 1820.
Desultory Thoughts in London: Titus and Gisippus, with other poems.
1821.
Poetical Essays on the character of Pope, as a poet and moralist; and on
the language and objects most fit for poetry. 1821.
The Duke d’Ormond, a tragedy; and Beritola, a tale.