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Books: Paperbacks - HHIII Essays of Elia By Charles Lamb university of Iowa pounds 16.50

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030914
Author:Bess Roman

Could you warm to a man who writes about ears like this? "...those exterior twin appendages, hanging ornaments and ... handsome volutes to the human capital... those conduits... those ingenious labyrinthine inlets - those indispensible side-intelligencers." I think I've found out where Dickens got some of his tricks from. Phillip Lopate usefully points out in his foreword that Charles Lamb was writing in a consciously fogeyish way even for the 1820s; you only have to look at other prose of the day - Byron's letters, say - to understand how much. This sort of crabbed prose, clotted with ...

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