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Walter Savage Landor was a 19th century English writer and poet. His best known works were the prose Imaginary Conversations, and the poem Rose Aylme. In Imaginary Conservations Landor used a varied selection of historical characters from Greek philosophers to contemporary writers. He wrote conversations between pairs of characters that covered areas of philosophy, politics, romance and many other topics. This volume also contains some of Landor's poems including, She I love (alas in vain!), Pleasure! why thus desert the heart, Past ruin'd Ilion Helen lives, Ianthe! you are call'd to cross the sea!, The gates of fame and of the grave, Twenty years hence my eyes may grow, Twenty years hence my eyes may grow, Here, ever since you went abroad, Tell me not things past all belief, and Proud word you never spoke, but you will. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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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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