Cambridge and Charles Lamb
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Cambridge and Charles Lamb
（Cambridge library collection, . Cambridge）
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : At the University Press, 1925
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- The Cambridge Charles Lamb dinners / by George Wherry
- Cambridge and Charles Lamb / by E.V. Lucas
- The earliest Charles Lamb dinner / by Sir Edmund Gosse
- George Dyer and "Dyer's Frend" / by George Wherry
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although the early nineteenth-century essayist Charles Lamb never studied in Cambridge, he knew the city well and had many friends connected with the University, most notably Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Between 1909 and 1914, at a time when Lamb was widely read and admired, a series of dinners were held in Cambridge to commemorate Lamb's birthday and his connections with the city. Edited by one of the original organisers, George Wherry, in 1925, this little volume collects his reminiscences of eminent guests at the events, along with two informative essays on Lamb's Cambridge connections by Lamb's biographer and editor E. V. Lucas. Another contribution is Edmund Gosse's account of how his friendship with Algernon Swinburne was enriched by their shared admiration of Lamb. The volume remains of interest both as a record of Edwardian academic conviviality, remembered after the Great War, and of the enthusiasm Lamb inspired at the time.
Table of Contents
- 1. The Cambridge Charles Lamb dinners George Wherry
- 2. Cambridge and Charles Lamb E. V. Lucas
- 3. The earliest Charles Lamb dinner Edmund Gosse
- 4. George Dyer and 'Dyer's friend' George Wherry
- Index.
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