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PRESENTING PATHOS THROUGH HUMOUR: A CRITICAL STUDY OF SOME SELECTED ESSAYS OF CHARLES LAMB
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Author(s):
PRIYANKA GAHNOLIA
Vol - 9, Issue- 4 ,
Page(s) : 147 - 152
(2018 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ
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Abstract
ABSTRACT: Charles Lamb is entitled to a place as an essayist beside Montaigne, Sir Thomas Browne, Steele and Addison. He unites many of the characteristics of each of these writers-refined and exquisite humour, a genuine and cordial vein of pleasantry and heart-touching pathos. His fancy is distinguished by great delicacy and tenderness; and even his conceits are imbued with human feeling and passion. Pathos and humour frequently jostle each other in his essays. There is a curious mingling of these two ingredients in his work. Laughter is quickly followed by tears of sympathy in many of his essays. Sometimes there are alternations of humour and pathos, and sometimes the two elements exist simultaneously in the same passage which has both a comic and a pathetic side.
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