A painted portrait of Charles Lamb, underneath the words "Legacy Library."
Today is the birthday of #CharlesLamb, the essayist and poet who was at the center of the 19th-century Romantic Movement in England. His personal library, complete with some of his own reviews—often taken from his letters—has been cataloged as one of our Legacy Libraries. #💙📚 #Booksky
“I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library.”
#CharlesLamb #literarybirthdays
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“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.”
#CharlesLamb #literarybirthdays
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“Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.”
#CharlesLamb #literarybirthdays
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"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charle...
✒ #CharlesLamb, English critic, poet, and essayist, was #BOTD 10 February 1775. #Poetry #Literature
„Der Neujahrstag ist der Geburtstag eines jeden Menschen.“
Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
#Zitat #ZitatDerWoche #ZitatOfTheWeek #CharlesLamb #EssaysOfElia
✨ Just Published! Tales from Shakespeare has enchanted generations of readers with its graceful retellings of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays.
#CharlesLamb #Shakespeare #Childrensbooks #Bookstagram #WarblerPress
The Lake Poets: An Anthology, intro by James Rebanks, out 4 November. "These were the punks of their day...They came together like teenagers creating a modern band."
#WilliamWordsworth #DorothyWordsworth #SamuelTaylorColeridge #RobertSouthey #CharlesLamb
Giltspur Street, London. Wall memorial to essayist and poet Charles Lamb d1834. Photo: 30.03.2024. #London #CharlesLamb #memorial
This little 1883 #book of #authors #writing about #books would make a lovely addition to your #collection! More than 478 pages! $40. #Booksky #writers #reading #RalphWaldoEmerson #CharlesLamb #LeighHunt #WilliamHazlitt #oldbooks #prettybooks #BooksAboutBooks
A “lesser Romantic” becomes the glue for the bigger stars of the era as they flock to his salon in his humble London flats. He's a gentle soul whose story is not as well known as the others. I want to change that: Welcome to the salon… #London #charleslamb #innertemple
A image of a small lot between low-(60s era) and mid- (20s era) rise buildings, a concrete square with overgrown weeds and flowering bushes in the centre, with a Brutalist bench nearly swallowed by grass. Text below reads: “Henceforth I shall know / That Nature ne ’ er deserts the wise and pure; / No plot so narrow, be but Nature there / No waste so vacant, but may well employ / Each faculty of sense, and keep the heart / Awake to to Love and Beauty!” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison: Address to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London (1800)
#Coleridge didn't compose this in #London, but it certainly speaks to how I feel when I (virtually) encounter one of the many green pockets of this city.
#GoogleStreetView #BoroughOfLambeth #poetry #poets #nature #CharlesLamb
9:55am TODAY on @BBCTwo
The 1957 #Musical🎶 #Biopic film🎥 “The Tommy Steele Story” directed by #GerardBryant & written by #NormanHudis
🌟 #TommySteele #ChasMcDevittSkiffleGroup #NancyWhiskey #HumphreyLytteltonAndHisBand #TommyEytlesCalypsoBand #HildaFenemore #CharlesLamb
"When I am not walking, I am reading."
-- Charles Lamb
#CharlesLamb #walking #reading #books #book #literature #beauty #love #iamwriting #LeMonde
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky
19/30: Epigraph from “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
#CharlesLamb #HarperLee #lawyers #AtticusFinch #ToKillAMockingbird
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident."
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charle...
✒ #CharlesLamb, English critic, poet, and essayist, was #BOTD 10 February 1775. #Poetry #Literature
10:40am TODAY on @bbctwo.bsky.social
The 1957 #Musical🎶 #Biopic film🎥 “The Tommy Steele Story” directed by #GerardBryant & written by #NormanHudis
🌟 #TommySteele #ChasMcDevittSkiffleGroup #NancyWhiskey #HumphreyLytteltonAndHisBand #TommyEytlesCalypsoBand #HildaFenemore #CharlesLamb
“Credulity is the man’s weakness, but the child’s strength.”
#CharlesLamb, 1775-1834 #kids
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Throwback Thursday: #CityofWestminster. Trying to remember where I saw this sculpture. Guess is near Garrick St, but maybe I just think this b/c #CharlesLamb loved #Garrick so much.
#googlemaps #streetview #author #city
#london
