What kind of literary work “The Old Familiar Faces” is?

- Charles Lamb: English essayist and critic, best known for his Essays of Elia (1823–33).
- He was a near contemporary there of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and of Leigh Hunt.
- Lamb’s first appearances in print were as a poet, with contributions to collections by Coleridge (1796) and by Charles Lloyd (1798).
- A Tale of Rosamund Gray, a prose romance, appeared in 1798, and in 1802 he published John Woodvil, a poetic tragedy.
- “The Old Familiar Faces” (1789) remains his best-known poem, although “On an Infant Dying As Soon As It Was Born” (1828) is his finest poetic achievement.

Source: britannica