It has been pointed out that spirituality played an important role in Lamb's personal life, and that, although he was not a churchman, and disliked organized religion, he yet "sought consolation in religion".

Unabashedly sentimental, lovely, sweetest part of our nature, contemporary fascination with nature and the countryside.

Charles Lamb was born in London in 1775. He studied at Christ`s Hospital where he formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. When he was twenty years old Lamb suffered a period of insanity. His sister, Mary Ann Lamb, had similar problems and in 1796 murdered her mother in a fit of madness. Mary was confined to an asylum but was eventually released into the care of her brother.   Lamb became friends in London with a group of young writers who favoured political reform including Percy Bysshe Shelley, Henry Brougham, Lord Byron, Thomas Barnes and Leigh Hunt. In 1796 Lamb contributed four sonnets to Coleridge`s Poems on Various Subjects (1796). This was foll