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Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations - First Volume by : Walter Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations - First Volume written by Walter Landor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction to the first volume: "The birth of Walter Savage Landor falls at a date when the men who had given the eighteenth century its glory were just giving way to their successors. In 1784 Johnson died. Landor was then nine years old. Within a few years before that date both Gray and Goldsmith had died, and Wordsworth, Scott, Southey, and Lamb had been born. The next ten years saw the births of both Byron and Shelley, and almost those of Keats and Carlyle. The Bastille fell when Landor was a school boy at Rugby, and Cowper, the last survivor of the great poets of the eighteenth century, died in Landor's twenty-fifth year. The reader who desires a minute account of the long life which began at such an epoch must look for it in the works of Mr. Forster and Mr. Colvin. All that the present essay intends is to describe the life of the author so far as it throws light upon that part of his works which is here presented. "It was not until rather late in Landor's life that the first volume of Imaginary Conversations appeared. But from that time until the very end he was continually rewriting those he had written, and writing new ones. He had indeed written earlier in life, but most of those earlier writings had been in verse. The first of them was published when he was twenty years old. He had just left Oxford, partly because the authorities of Trinity College had objected to his firing a shot gun through the windows of a man with whom he had a momentary quarrel, and partly because he was too proud to take the path of apology and repentance which might have enabled him to return. But, in spite of its date and the place of its production, the book is not like other books written in like circumstances. It is fiercer and terser than such books usually are. It is also wittier...".
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations in Six Volumes, First Volume by : Walter Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations in Six Volumes, First Volume written by Walter Landor and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction to the first volume:"The birth of Walter Savage Landor falls at a date when the men who had given the eighteenth century its glory were just giving way to their successors. In 1784 Johnson died. Landor was then nine years old. Within a few years before that date both Gray and Goldsmith had died, and Wordsworth, Scott, Southey, and Lamb had been born. The next ten years saw the births of both Byron and Shelley, and almost those of Keats and Carlyle. The Bastille fell when Landor was a school boy at Rugby, and Cowper, the last survivor of the great poets of the eighteenth century, died in Landor's twenty-fifth year. The reader who desires a minute account of the long life which began at such an epoch must look for it in the works of Mr Forster and Mr Colvin. All that the present essay intends is to describe the life of the author so far as it throws light upon that part of his works which is here presented. "It was not until rather late in Landor's life that the first volume of Imaginary Conversations appeared. But from that time until the very end he was continually rewriting those he had written, and writing new ones. He had indeed written earlier in life, but most of those earlier writings had been in verse. The first of them was published when he was twenty years old. He had just left Oxford, partly because the authorities of Trinity College had objected to his firing a shot gun through the windows of a man with whom he had a momentary quarrel, and partly because he was too proud to take the path of apology and repentance which might have enabled him to return. But, in spite of its date and the place of its production, the book is not like other books written in like circumstances. It is fiercer and terser than such books usually are. It is also wittier."...
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations (Volume V) by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations (Volume V) written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2020-03-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations - Fifth Volume by : Walter Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations - Fifth Volume written by Walter Landor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction to the first volume: "It is worthwhile to dwell upon this experience of political journalism, because it was to the associations of these years that he owed the political bias of his mind. He had fought on the side of those opposed to Pitt and Canning, and to the last hour of his life he remained opposed to them. Even where they are not actually mentioned by name, they continually appear in his writings. A story about a knavish Persian statesman, or a tricky Athenian demagogue, will veil an attack upon one or the other of the two arch-tories, against whom he had once borne arms. As far as Pitt is concerned, those may defend him who will. But in Landor's antipathy to Canning there is something less reasonable, and almost more personal. In part it is possible that Landor resented, most unreasonably, Canning's lack of birth. He himself was proud of his ancestry. His mother came of an old Warwickshire family of Savages, to which he devoutly believed Sir Arnold Savage to have belonged. It pleased both his aristocratic and his whiggish opinions to think himself descended from the Speaker of the House of Commons who was independent enough to lecture Henry the Fourth on the science of government. But whatever may have been the cause of his bitter dislike, there can be no question of its endurance. Among all Landor's attacks on those from whom he differed, the attacks on Canning stand pre-eminent. ..".
Book Synopsis Walter Savage Landor: First series of Imaginary conversations: Classical dialogues (Greek) and (Roman) Citation and examination of William Shakespeare touching deer-stealing by : John Forster
Download or read book Walter Savage Landor: First series of Imaginary conversations: Classical dialogues (Greek) and (Roman) Citation and examination of William Shakespeare touching deer-stealing written by John Forster and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis book 5th. 1822-1828, The Imaginary conversations by : John Forster
Download or read book book 5th. 1822-1828, The Imaginary conversations written by John Forster and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations - Third Volume by : Walter Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations - Third Volume written by Walter Landor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction to the first volume: "During the time occupied in writing these works Landor's private life had been a restless one. He had quarrelled with his father, and lived a wandering life in London, at Tenby, and elsewhere. Part of the time was spent at his father's house in Warwick, where he made a friend whose influence upon his life seems to have been considerable. No new bent could have been given to his vigorous obstinacy of character by any human being, but in a near neighbour of his father's he must have found a similarity of thought likely to strengthen the set which his nature had taken for itself. Dr Parr was the curate of Hatton, a small village only a few miles off Warwick. He was a first rate classical scholar. "There are three great Grecians in England," he once said, "Porson is the first: Burney is the third: and who the second is I need not tell." But in addition to this he was a mighty whig, in the days when Pitt was all powerful, and when every true tory looked upon whigs as next door to Jacobins. Landor's love for classical learning was acquired at an early age. At Rugby his Latin verses had been famous, and at Oxford his classical knowledge had gained the respect of his tutors. That he gained no prize in the university he himself accounts for in a characteristic fashion. In a letter written in 1857, he says-"Though I wrote better Latin than any undergraduate or graduate in the university, I could never be persuaded by my tutor or my friends to contend for any prize whatever." But though he wrote no Latin verse in competition, he had written much for his own pleasure. In the volume of poems published by him at Oxford were fifty pages of Latin verse containing, among other things, Hendecasyllabics, of which, his tutor declared, Catullus might have been proud. As far as classical learning went, Dr Parr and he were sure to find a common ground...".
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations - Second Volume by : Walter Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations - Second Volume written by Walter Landor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction to the first volume: The inscription for a Quaker's tankard- "Ye lie friend Pindar and friend Thales! Nothing so good as water? Ale is." -is worth all the more polished verse in which the young poets of Oxford have been wont to echo the achieved singers of the outside world. Other poetical works of more importance followed, and among them Gebir. This poem, though written when its author was only twenty-three, shows that even then he had acquired a definite poetic style. Like his prose his verse is characteristic. Both have the same grave and sometimes rugged march in them. In both the ruggedness is often broken by sentences of such marvellous art and beauty that the reader wonders how the same man could write in two such different manners. But the wonder is idle. The artist who has strength to be austere needs no other strength; he who has once made the bleak summits familiar to his feet, cannot but discover that there grow flowers the fairer for their isolation. To the reader, indeed, austerity may be unattractive, and sometimes with reason. It is only in the moods of highest inspiration that art and austerity can dwell together; and Landor no less than any other artist is subject to this law. Passages may be found both in his verse and in his prose where the reader's attention flags. The air of the mountains is no longer around him, and he is left to contend with a bare style expressive of no lofty thought. His consolation is that from the plain to the loftiest heights is for Landor only a step.
Book Synopsis The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor written by Walter Savage Landor and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of Walter Savage Landor's imaginative conversations, featuring a range of literary figures discussing their lives and works. The conversations included in this volume focus on the lives and works of literary men. Landor's style is witty and erudite, and his insights into the personalities of his subjects are often revealing. This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in literary history and the art of conversation. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations in Six Volumes, Third Volume by : Walter Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations in Six Volumes, Third Volume written by Walter Landor and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Introduction to the first volume:"During the time occupied in writing these works Landor's private life had been a restless one. He had quarrelled with his father, and lived a wandering life in London, at Tenby, and elsewhere. Part of the time was spent at his father's house in Warwick, where he made a friend whose influence upon his life seems to have been considerable. No new bent could have been given to his vigorous obstinacy of character by any human being, but in a near neighbour of his father's he must have found a similarity of thought likely to strengthen the set which his nature had taken for itself. Dr Parr was the curate of Hatton, a small village only a few miles off Warwick. He was a first rate classical scholar. "There are three great Grecians in England," he once said, "Porson is the first: Burney is the third: and who the second is I need not tell." But in addition to this he was a mighty whig, in the days when Pitt was all powerful, and when every true tory looked upon whigs as next door to Jacobins. Landor's love for classical learning was acquired at an early age. At Rugby his Latin verses had been famous, and at Oxford his classical knowledge had gained the respect of his tutors. That he gained no prize in the university he himself accounts for in a characteristic fashion. In a letter written in 1857, he says--"Though I wrote better Latin than any undergraduate or graduate in the university, I could never be persuaded by my tutor or my friends to contend for any prize whatever." But though he wrote no Latin verse in competition, he had written much for his own pleasure. In the volume of poems published by him at Oxford were fifty pages of Latin verse containing, among other things, Hendecasyllabics, of which, his tutor declared, Catullus might have been proud. As far as classical learning went, Dr Parr and he were sure to find a common ground."...
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Book Synopsis Supplemental catalogue of books, by author, title, subject and class, added ... from October 1874 to December 1879-(1893). by : National library of Ireland
Download or read book Supplemental catalogue of books, by author, title, subject and class, added ... from October 1874 to December 1879-(1893). written by National library of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Imaginary Conversations and Poems by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary Conversations and Poems written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) was an English writer and poet, eldest son of Walter Landor and his wife Elizabeth Savage. He was sent to Rugby School, but was removed at the headmaster's request and studied privately with Mr. Langley, vicar of Ashbourne. In 1793 appeared in a small volume, divided into three books, The Poems of Walter Savage Landor, and, in pamphlet form of nineteen pages, an anonymous Moral Epistle, respectfully dedicated to Earl Stanhope. No poet at the age of twenty ever had more vigour of style and fluency of verse; nor perhaps has any ever shown such masterly command of epigram and satire, made vivid and vital by the purest enthusiasm and most generous indignation. Three years later appeared the first edition of the first great work which was to inscribe his name for ever among the great names in English poetry, Gebir. Among his other famous works are: Count Julian (1812), Imaginary Conversations and Poems (1824-29), Citation and Examination of William Shakespeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough Clerk (1834).
Book Synopsis Imaginary conversations by : Walter Savage Landor
Download or read book Imaginary conversations written by Walter Savage Landor and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature by : David Scott Kastan
Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature written by David Scott Kastan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 2648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference presents over five hundred full essays on authors and a variety of topics, including censorship, genre, patronage, and dictionaries.
