Charles Lamb:
(10 February 1775 – 27 December 1834).
English essayist, poet, and antiquarian, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children’s book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764–1847).
Friends with such literary luminaries as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth and William Hazlitt, Lamb was at the centre of a major literary circle in England. He has been referred to by E. V. Lucas, his principal biographer, as “the most lovable figure in English literature”.
No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
The compliments of the season to my worthy masters, and a merry first of April to us all.
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
