Imaginary Conversations - Selected Conversations

Selected Conversations

For more details on this topic, see List of Landor's Imaginary Conversations.

Some of the most notable conversations are as follows.

Volume 1 (1824)

  • Queen Elizabeth and Cecil
  • Southey and Porson
  • The Abbe Delille and Walter Landor

Volume II (1824)

  • Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
  • Washington and Franklin

Volume III (1828)

  • Epictetus and Seneca
  • Marcellus and Hannibal

Volume IV (1829)

  • Diogenes and Plato Text
  • John of Gaunt and Joanna of Kent
  • Lady Lisle and Elizabeth Gaunt
  • Leofric and Godiva
  • Mr Pitt and Mr Canning

Volume V (1829)

  • Epicurus, Leontion and Ternissa

Published in The Book of Beauty (1844) Aesop and Rhodope

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