Classical (Imaginary) Conversations: Greek, Roman, Modern

by Walter Savage Landor

Excerpt from Classical (Imaginary) Greek, Roman, Modern
Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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First published January 1, 1901

About the author

Walter Savage Landor (30 January 1775 – 17 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist.

Landor's best known work is the multi-volume Imaginary Conversations, written during his years living in Italy. He died in Florence at age 89.

Throughout his life, Landor travelled widely and had a notable circle of friends including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Lamb, Countess Blessington, Robert Browning and Charles Dickens. Landor was the godfather of Dickens's son Walter Landor Dickens.

The writer, explorer, and adventurer Arnold Henry Savage Landor is his grandson.

Reviews

[Fred R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Almost too beautiful, at times to obscurity. Landor is overfond of a couple notes (the evils of tyranny, for instance), but I forgive him everything. To watch Diogenes castigate Plato for preaching nonsense is a delight I had not imagined this world would offer me, and the romance between Aesop and Rhodope accumulates enormous force almost behind your back.