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Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection — Walter Savage Landor

Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection

Walter Savage Landor

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 427 pages

This is a selection of Walter Savage Landor's prose dialogues and poems. In the Imaginary Conversations, historical and literary figures—from Hannibal and Marcellus to Dante and Beatrice—speak in imagined encounters, while the poems offer brief, reflective lyrics. It is worth listening for its vivid character portrayals, wit, and polished prose.

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Contents

  1. IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS AND POEMS: A SELECTION
  2. WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
  3. CONTENTS
  4. IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS
  5. MARCELLUS AND HANNIBAL
  6. QUEEN ELIZABETH AND CECIL
  7. EPICTETUS AND SENECA
  8. PETER THE GREAT AND ALEXIS
  9. HENRY VIII AND ANNE BOLEYN
  10. JOSEPH SCALIGER AND MONTAIGNE
  11. BOCCACCIO AND PETRARCA
  12. BOSSUET AND THE DUCHESS DE FONTANGES
  13. JOHN OF GAUNT AND JOANNA OF KENT
  14. LEOFRIC AND GODIVA
  15. ESSEX AND SPENSER
  16. LORD BACON AND RICHARD HOOKER
  17. OLIVER CROMWELL AND WALTER NOBLE
  18. LORD BROOKE AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
  19. SOUTHEY AND PORSON
  20. THE ABBÉ DELILLE AND WALTER LANDOR
  21. DIOGENES AND PLATO
  22. ALFIERI AND SALOMON THE FLORENTINE JEW
  23. ROUSSEAU AND MALESHERBES
  24. LUCULLUS AND CAESAR
  25. EPICURUS, LEONTION, AND TERNISSA
  26. DANTE AND BEATRICE
  27. FRA FILIPPO LIPPI AND POPE EUGENIUS THE FOURTH
  28. TASSO AND CORNELIA
  29. LA FONTAINE AND DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULT
  30. LUCIAN AND TIMOTHEUS

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