Praeludium of a Grunt
Tom Crewe: Charles Lamb’s Lives, 19 October 2023
Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb
by Eric G. Wilson.
Yale, 521 pp., £25, January 2022,978 0 300 23080 2 Show More
by Eric G. Wilson.
Yale, 521 pp., £25, January 2022,
“... a hamper, it was as though the giver were there by proxy: ‘we love … to taste him in grouse or woodcock: to feel him gliding down in the toast peculiar to the latter; to concorporate him in a slice of Canterbury brawn … such participation is perhaps unitive, as the old theologians phrase it.’ And when Lamb himself sent gifts of food: ‘I love to taste ... ”
