The Question and Answer section for Charles Lamb: Essays is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
"Dream Children" is a formally unique essay, channeling the logic and flow of a dream in a series of long sentences of strung together phrases and no paragraph breaks to be found. Lamb deftly uses these stylistic conceits to pull the reader into a...
As a Romantic, Lamb brought a key innovation to the somewhat new form, inserting his own personally to give the essays a conversational tone. His essays showcase his passions and anxieties, imbuing the non-fiction form with a personal and literary...
The major theme is that of the "poor relation"... their irrelevance and unpleasant place in one's life.
