Craig ConstantineLectures
The muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.
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#CharlesLamb #InspirationalQuotesBookReviewed_ #Quotes #Silence
HarryHolt1791Benjamin Haydon has been described as one of the most interesting men of his generation & on 28Dec1818 he records extensively in his journal a dinner hosted for his friends #WilliamWordsworth #JohnKeats #CharlesLamb & others famously referred to as ‘The Immortal Dinner’ #poets
#HarryHolt #Holt #Genealogy #Bareknuckle #Boxing #Pugilist #Regency #Georgian #C18th #C19th #History
Dr Andrew McInnesTo celebrate discovering my 6 author copies of The #CharlesLamb Bulletin (and a Christmas card from Wordsworth Grasmere) waiting for my in my pigeon hole I’m running a #competition in which YOU can win a copy - toot me your most ridiculous line, story, or anecdote ideally about #Romanticism and you can read my essay on Lamb and ridiculousness - and much else in a great journal! Winner chosen by whimsy!
Jennifer Ebeling#January 30, 1775
#OTD Walter Savage Landor, English #Writer & #Poet, is born.
His touching #Poem for #RoseAylmer (who died of #Cholera) went viral - the writer #CharlesLamb "lived on it for weeks:"
"Rose Aylmer...a night of memories & sighs I consecrate to thee."
Another great Walter story is the time he got mad at his cook & threw him out the window, realizing at that precise moment that the cook likely landed in the #Garden.
Wally shrieked,
"Good God! I forgot the #Violets!"
I’m in the new #CharlesLamb Society Journal talking about ridiculousness! #Romantodon #Litodon #Histodon #AcademicChatter
Quick Quotes“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
― Charles Lamb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lamb
JBRossTis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected." — Charles Lamb — — — #CharlesLamb #quote #quotes #friendship #nonsense #privilege #respect