Review: Matthew Bevis on Charles Lamb

In an autobiographical sketch written in 1827, Charles Lamb pleaded guilty to “obtruding upon the Public a Tale in Prose, called Rosamund Gray, a Dramatic Sketch named John Woodvil, a Farewell Ode to Tobacco, with sundry other Poems and light prose matter, collected in Two slight crown Octavos and pompously christened his Works.” Hardly a glowing self-r…