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Charles Lamb - Literature Vault - Classic Authors and Literature Online! (361 words) |
 | Charles Lamb (1775- 27 July 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. |
| Charles, who had never married because of his family commitments, fell in love with an actress, Fanny Kelly, of Covent Garden, but she refused him and he remained until his death a bachelor. |
| His collected essays, under the title, Essays of Elia, were published in 1823 ("Elia" being the pen-name Lamb used as a contributor to The London Magazine). |
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AUGUST HEINRICH HOFFMANN - LoveToKnow Article on AUGUST HEINRICH HOFFMANN (675 words) |
| (1798-1874), known as HOFFHANX vox FALLERSLEBEN, German poet, philologist and historian of literature, was born at Fallersleben in the duchy of Liineburg, Hanover, on the 2nd of April 1798, the son of the mayor of the town. |
| In 1823 he was appointed custodian of the university library at Breslau, a post which he held till 1838. |
| As a student of ancient Teutonic literature Hoffmann von Fallersieben ranks among the most persevering and cultivated of German scholars, some of the chief results of his labors being embodied in his Horae Belgicae, Fundgruben fur Geschichte deutscher Sprache und Literatur, Alldeutsche Blatter, Spenden zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte and Findlinge. |
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