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LANDOR, Walter Savage (1775-1864). Autograph letter signed ('W.S. Landor') to Revd [Joseph Williams] Blakesley, Torquay, 3 November 1837, 2 pages, 4to, integral address leaf, traces of seal (seal tears).
Landor refuses the invitation to write a dialogue between Latimer and Cranmer on the grounds that he had already announced he would publish nothing further in his lifetime ('let those kick against the pricks who are on the ascent'), suggests Southey could do so on the grounds that 'He entertains a higher esteem for the character of Cranmer than I profess' and makes a vigorous attack on Cranmer ('a deliberate cold-hearted cruel murderer') comparing him unfavourably with Pontius Pilate.
Landor's Imaginary Conversations (1824-9) were his most famous prose works. Blakesley, to whom Tennyson addressed one of his first published poems, was a member of the Apostles' Club at Trinity College, Cambridge and later Dean of Lincoln.
Landor refuses the invitation to write a dialogue between Latimer and Cranmer on the grounds that he had already announced he would publish nothing further in his lifetime ('let those kick against the pricks who are on the ascent'), suggests Southey could do so on the grounds that 'He entertains a higher esteem for the character of Cranmer than I profess' and makes a vigorous attack on Cranmer ('a deliberate cold-hearted cruel murderer') comparing him unfavourably with Pontius Pilate.
Landor's Imaginary Conversations (1824-9) were his most famous prose works. Blakesley, to whom Tennyson addressed one of his first published poems, was a member of the Apostles' Club at Trinity College, Cambridge and later Dean of Lincoln.
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