‘So Whimsical a Head’

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Charles Lamb often complained of not being able to think on his own. “I dare not think, lest I [should think] wrong,” he told Dorothy Wordsworth in 1805, when his sister, Mary, disappeared once more into the local madhouse. “I am like a [fool, bere]ft of her co-operation.” The death in 1834 of Coleridge, his […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/08/18/dream-child-a-life-of-charles-lamb-wilson/

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