| First Series—Classical Dialogues, Greek and Roman. |
| Second Series—Dialogues of Sovereigns and Statesmen. |
| Third Series—Dialogues of Literary Men. |
| Fourth Series—Dialogues of Famous Women. |
| Fifth Series—Miscellaneous Dialogues. |
Note.—This New Edition is printed from the last Edition of his Works, revised and edited by John Forster, and is published by arrangement with the Proprietors of the Copyright of Walter Savage Landor’s Works.
The Athenæum.
“The appearance of this tasteful reprint would seem to indicate that the present generation is at last waking up to the fact that it has neglected a great writer, and if so it is well to begin with Landor’s most adequate work. It is difficult to overpraise the ‘Imaginary Conversations.’ The eulogiums bestowed on the ‘Conversations’ by Emerson will, it is to be hoped, lead many to buy this book.”
Scotsman.
“An excellent service has been done to the reading public by presenting to it, in five compact volumes, these ‘Conversations.’ Admirably printed on good paper, the volumes are handy in shape, and indeed the edition is all that could be desired. When this has been said, it will be understood what a boon has been conferred on the reading public; and it should enable many comparatively poor men to enrich their libraries with a work that will have an enduring interest.”
Literary World.
“That the ‘Imaginary Conversations’ of Walter Savage Landor are not better known is no doubt largely due to their inaccessibility to most readers, by reason of their cost. This new issue, while handsome enough to find a place in the best of libraries, is not beyond the reach of the ordinary bookbuyer.”
Edinburgh Review.
“How rich in scholarship! how correct, concise, and pure in style! how full of imagination, wit, and humour! how well informed, how bold in speculation, how various in interest, how universal in sympathy! In these dialogues—making allowance for every shortcoming or excess—the most familiar and the most august shapes of the past are reanimated with vigour, grace, and beauty. We are in the high and goodly company of wits and men of letters; of churchmen, lawyers, and statesmen; of party-men, soldiers, and kings; of the most tender, delicate, and noble women; and of figures that seem this instant to have left for us the Agora or the Schools of Athens, the Forum or the Senate of Rome.”