Double Bonds: Charles Lamb's Romantic Collaborations
1996; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 63; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/elh.1996.0026
ISSN1080-6547
Autores Tópico(s)Travel Writing and Literature
ResumoDouble is the chain that binds us-both of friendship and of like Muses joined together. Would that neither death nor distance of time could dissolve it! So reads the invented epigraph to Poems, by S. T Coleridge, Second Edition, to which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd (1797).1 The volume bears witness to another bond as well: Lamb's portion of the text is dedicated, with all a brother's fondness ... to Mary Ann Lamb, the author's best friend and sister-and later his partner in domestic and authorial singleness (LW, 5:283, 2:75). An account of these overlapping and sometimes competing sets of double bonds can give us insight not only into the Lambs' particular authorial relations to each other and to others, but also into collaboration in its Romantic contexts.
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