Selections from the Imaginary Conversati - Couverture souple

Landor, Walter Savage

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1428664076 ISBN 13 : 9781428664074

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Selections From The Imaginary Conversations Of Walter Savage Landor is a book that features a collection of literary dialogues written by the British writer Walter Savage Landor. The book is divided into two volumes and includes a total of 145 conversations between historical and fictional characters, such as Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, and William Shakespeare. The conversations cover a wide range of topics, including politics, literature, philosophy, and religion. Landor's writing style is characterized by his use of wit, irony, and satire, and his ability to capture the essence of each character's personality and beliefs. The book is considered a classic of English literature and has been praised for its depth of insight into the human condition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

De Quincey, entirely concurs. Not that Landor is to supplant, but only to supplement, De Quincey, Macaulay, Scott, and the rest, in a judicious course of English reading. Such a course must often begin with the second best at least it must begin where interest is most readily engaged. But it must not be allowed to degenerate into a romantic debauch. And Landor sprose, one thinks, should afford precisely the right corrective, doubly needed at a time when the classic board is so frugally spread. Such speculations, however, do not settle a question like this. Matthew Arnold was fond of pointing out that the value of any discipline is to be measured by its power of engaging the emotions and thereby exerting an influence upon the sense for conduct and the sense for beauty. By this test, applied and observed in the classroom, the Imaginary Conversations do not fail. Perhaps no element in literature awakens a livelier response than the dramatic, and in these dramatic dialogues the student is brought face to face with matters of enduringt interest. Humanity in its manifold aspects, with its clashes of opinion, its impulses to action, its gradations of character, is always in the foreground. There is no recital of facts to be committed to memory, and there are few flights of rhetoric to invite desultory discussion of words and sentences.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

Lander sprose. The aim has been to include, not what is most characteristic, but what is most interesting and instructive, therefore most suitable for those who are beginning their studies in literature. For Landor must be approached with circumspection: some of his most characteristic work, delightful indeed as the recreation of mature and meditative years, has no place here. In the I ntroduction, however, an attempt has been made to restore the balance. But after all, and making the largest allowance for personal taste, no selection can differ very much from Mr. Colvin s. The fact is that of Landor sseveral thousand pages of prose, that which can make an appeal at once wide and deep can be gathered into the compass of a modest volume. The rest is like the vast plains of the Dakotas fertile, but unpicturesque. For the reassurance of those who still look askance at the Imaginary Conversations, let Mr.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1428664076
• ISBN 13: 9781428664074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Éditeur: Newcomer Alphonso G
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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