Rotten Reviews: Charles Lamb

Posted on September 12, 2018 | Leave a comment

“Charles Lamb I sincerely believe to be in some considerable degree insane. A more pitiful, rickety, gasping, staggering, Tomfool I do not know.”

Thomas Carlyle, 1831, in The Book of Insults 1978

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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