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Charles Lamb

1775-1834. Charles Lamb was an English essayist and poet best known for Essays of Elia. He befriended Samuel Taylor Coleridge while at Christ's Hospital for study. At twenty, he went briefly insane, a condition which ran in his family—his sister also suffered from bouts of insanity and, in 1796, murdered her mother. He was active in the literary circles of his time, regularly publishing in important journals. His poem "The Old Familiar Faces" and his essay "Dream Children" are among his best-known and most popular works.

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The Old Familiar Faces

20 November 2005
Vol. 5, No. 3
poetry, classic, elegy

I have had playmates, I have had companions

In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days;

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

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