Editing Lambeth (section)

==Literary Lambeth==
From 1790 to 1800, William Blake lived in North Lambeth, London, at 13 Hercules Buildings, Hercules Road. In his epic ''[[Milton: A Poem in Two Books]]'', the poet [[John Milton]] leaves Heaven and travels to Lambeth, in the form of a falling comet, and enters Blake's foot. This allows Blake to treat the ordinary world as perceived by the five senses as a sandal formed of "precious stones and gold" that he can now wear. Blake ties the sandal and, guided by [[Los (Blake)|Los]], walks with it into the City of Art, inspired by the spirit of poetic creativity. The poem was written between 1804 and 1810.

''[[Liza of Lambeth]]'', the first novel by [[W. Somerset Maugham]], is about the life and loves of a young factory worker living in Lambeth near [[Westminster Bridge Road]].<ref name="Liza">{{cite web |url=http://vauxhallhistory.org/liza-of-lambeth-by-w-somerset-maugham/ |title=Liza of Lambeth|publisher=Vauxhall History Online Archive |access-date=30 November 2016}}</ref>

''Thyrza'', a novel by [[George Gissing]] first published in 1887, is set in late Victorian Lambeth, particularly Newport Street, Lambeth Walk and Walnut Tree Walk. The novel was intended by Gissing to "contain the very spirit of London working-class life". The story tells of Walter Egremont, an [[University of Oxford|Oxford]]-trained idealist who gives lectures on literature to workers, some of them from his father's Lambeth factory.