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Revolution and Romanticism
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A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth ISBN 1 85477 075 6 174 x 110 mm 146 pages |
CHARLES LAMB Rosamund Gray 1798 Lamb’s first independent prose work is a brief, mournful tale of innocence lost, taking place in a paradise of his own remembered past. Realism is not part of the intention; feelings and emotions are distilled in a manner that is closer to Wordsworth’s Ruined Cottage and Lyrical Ballads than to the contemporary novel. Twenty-one years later Shelley wrote: ‘What a lovely thing is his Rosamund Gray! How much knowledge of the sweetest and deepest part of our nature is in it!’ £25 $48 For some they have died, and some they have left me, |
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