Charles Lamb was an English essayist, poet, fiction writer and critic from the Romantic period who continues to be one of the most lovable and read English essayists of all times. He was one of the significant members of the Lake Poets among whom William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were his close friends. Although he could not attain enduring popularity for his poetry as his friends Wordsworth and Coleridge did, he later channelized his energies into writing prose and in this pursuit emerged as one of the best essayists of his times. Two of his collections, ‘Essays of Elia’ and ‘Tales from Shakespeare’ are considered his best works as an essayist. ‘Essays of Elia’, which contained a string of autobiographical record of experiences and essays of Elia, a fictitious character of the writer, is counted among the most excellent illustrations of the English style of essays and compositions. His other prominent work ‘Tales from Shakespeare’, which he produced along with his sister Mary Lamb, consists of plays of Shakespeare for children. Some of his other notable works are ‘John Woodvil’, ‘The Adventures of Ulysses’, ‘On the Tragedies of Shakespeare’ and ‘Witches and Other Night Fears’.