Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
Autor de Conversaciones imaginarias
Sobre El Autor
Landor's long life was filled with endless quarrels, lawsuits, and controversy. His temper was violent; his convictions, absolute. But his poetic writings are astonishingly serene, disciplined, and elevated. His youthful Gebir (1798) is the best of his long narrative poems, but it is with the short mostrar más lyric that he is an enduring master. His prose Imaginary Conversations (1824--53) remains widely read. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Walter Savage Landor
Imaginary Conversations, Fourth Series: Dialogues of Literary Men [continued], Dialogues of Famous Women, and… (1828) 3 copias
Gebir, Count Julian, and other poems 3 copias
The Pentameron and Pentalogia 2 copias
Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary Conversations, Selected & Introduced By R. H. Boothroyd (1936) 2 copias
Poemata et inscriptiones 2 copias
The works and life of Walter Savage Landor : first series of imaginary conversations and examination of Shakespeare for… (1876) 2 copias
Representative Poetry, Volume 2 1 copia
Aphorisms 1 copia
Imaginary conversations, Vol. 1 copia
Pericles and Aspasia, Vol. 1 1 copia
A poet's dream 1 copia
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contribuidor — 250 copias
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- Landor, Walter Savage
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1775-01-30
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1864-09-17
- Lugar de sepultura
- English Cemetery, Florence, Italy
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Warwick, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Fiesole, Florence, Italy
- Lugares de residencia
- Tenby, Wales, UK
London, England, UK
Swansea, Wales, UK
Bath, Somerset, England, UK
Llanthony Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK
Como, Lombardy, Italy - Educación
- University of Oxford (Trinity College) (one year)
Rugby School - Relaciones
- Landor, Robert Eyres (brother)
- Biografía breve
- Charles Dickens put Landor into Bleak House as Lawrence Boythorn.
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- También por
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #78,715
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- 4.2
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- ISBNs
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It was often clear that the sympathies of the author lay with one dialogue partner, usually the one who champions tolerance, free thought, and other liberal ideals that I share, but that doesn’t always make for interesting reading.
One notable expression of these values is the closing line of the conversation between John of Gaunt and Joanna of Kent: “when I hear the God of mercy invoked to massacres, and thanked for furthering what He reprobates and condemns---I look back in vain on any barbarous people for worse barbarism.”
Not only Joanna of Kent but many other women, for instance, Anne Boleyn in conversation with Henry VIII, are sympathetically-drawn.
Sometimes the least promising dialogues, such as that between Lord Brooke (Fulke Greville) and Sir Philip Sydney, turned up some of the best lines, as when Sydney observes “goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.” I also enjoyed the way that Diogenes punctures Plato’s arguments for the immortal soul.
After a while, however, such insightful aphorisms didn’t offer enough reward to outweigh the tedium of the style or the lack of dramatic tension in the conversations.
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