Erection date: 1999
Inscription
{Two panels in front of a bench with a quill-shaped backrest:}
Essayist and poet of Church St Edmonton:
Charles Lamb - "Loved his brethren of mankind."
John Keats - "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
Created by sculptor Tim Shutter.
The Keats quotation is from his poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'.
We found the to Mrs Basil Montagu (Summer, 1827): "I shall go and inquire of the stone-cutter, that cuts the tombstones here, what a stone with a short inscription will cost; just to say—'Here C. Lamb loved his brethren of mankind.' Everybody will come there to love."
Site: John Keats and Charles Lamb - bench (1 memorial)
N9, Church Street, Winchester Road
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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