from Imaginary Conversations E-book
Author: Walter Savage Landor
Genre: Literature
English writer, critic, and poet. Removed from both Rugby and
Trinity College for insubordination and revolutionary opinions.
Used inheritance to equip volunteers to fight against Napoleon.
Lived in Italy (1815-1835). Works include Gabir (1797), Count
Julian (1812), Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829), Examination of
Shakespeare (1834), the trilogy: Andrea of Hungary, Giovanna of
Naples, and Fra Rupert (1839), Rose Aylmer (1847), The Helenics
(1847), Anthony and Octavius (1856), and Heroic Idyls (1863).
from Imaginary Conversations (published 1824-1829)
One of about 150 fictitious prose dialogues expressing Landor's
personal views- in this case, about William Shakespeare. The
fanciful conversations in this piece concerning Shakespeare take
place between Robert Southey (1774-1843) and Richard Porson (1759-
1808) and also between John Milton (1608-1674) and Andrew Marvell
(1621-1678).
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