Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. VI-VII. Letters
Charles Lamb to Edward Moxon, [5 August 1831]
SEND, or bring me, Hone’s No. for August.
Hunt is a fool, and his critics——The
anecdotes of E. and of G. D. are substantially true. What does
Elia (or Peter) care for dates?
That is the poem I mean. I do not know who wrote it, but is in Hone’s book as far back as April.
Tis a poem I envy—that &
Montgomery’s Last Man (nothing else of
his). I envy the writers, because I feel I could have done something like it.
S—— is a coxcomb. W—— is a ————
—— & a great Poet.
George Dyer (1755-1841)
English poet, antiquary, and friend of Charles Lamb; author of
Poems
and Critical Essays (1802),
Poetics: or a Series of Poems and
Disquisitions on Poetry, 2 vols (1812),
History of the
University and Colleges of Cambridge, 2 vols (1814) and other works.
William Hone (1780-1842)
English bookseller, radical, and antiquary; he was an associate of Bentham, Mill, and
John Cam Hobhouse.
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)
English poet, journalist, and man of letters; editor of
The
Examiner and
The Liberal; friend of Byron, Keats, and
Shelley.
Charles Lamb [Elia] (1775-1834)
English essayist and boyhood friend of Coleridge at Christ's Hospital; author of
Essays of Elia published in the
London
Magazine (collected 1823, 1833) and other works.
James Montgomery (1771-1854)
English poet and editor of the
Sheffield Iris (1795-1825); author
of
The Wanderer of Switzerland (1806) and
The
World before the Flood (1813).
