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Y him the dear sister who had so long watched over him, whom he had so
long guarded. * * * * * "'Saint Charles,' said Thackeray to me, thirty
years ago, putting one of Charles Lamb's letters to his forehead."[5]
[Footnote 5: Edward FitzGerald's "Letters."] HIS PRINCIPAL WRITINGS
The writings of Charles Lamb fall more
or less naturally into four or five groups--with, of course,
inevitable overlappings--and it is better to consider them thus,
rather than in the strict order of their production. POETRY It was in
poetry that he made his first essays, as we have seen, and this is not
to be wondered at in one who had early read the old poetic treasures
of our literature, and in the close

companion of so deeply poetic a man as Coleridge. He was, indeed,
himself essentially a poet, though his work in verse falls far below
that which he achieved in prose. The perusal of a slim volume

of the sonnets of William Lisle Bowles was the small occasion from
which
sprang the great event of Lamb's and Coleridge's commencing to write
poetry. To the sonnet form

Lamb returned again
and again, sometimes most felicitously, for two or three of his
sonnets have that haunting quality which