"The Essays of Elia" is a/an - collection of essays. - Charles Lamb, English essayist and critic belongs to the Romantic Period, is best known for his Essays of Elia. - It is his remarkable letters and the essays that he wrote under the pseudonym Elia for. - Lamb’s first Elia essays were published separately in 1823; a second series appeared, as The Last Essays of Elia, in 1833.