Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Savage Landor
- Type of Work: Philosophy
- Genres: Philosophy, Short fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Heroes or heroism, Popes or papacy, Romanticism, Neoclassicism
Critical Evaluation:
Landor once said, “Poetry was always my amusement, prose my study and business.” When he was forty-five years of age, after having devoted many years to poetic composition, he began what became Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, in which he found the form best suited to the peculiar aim and direction of his art. Although some of his poetry attains a gemlike perfection, it suffers by comparison with the work of his more famous contemporaries. While the major Romantic writers, with their emphasis on imagination, were bringing...
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