"Fantasy Dialogue" - Fantasy Dialogue

…As a poet, he wrote long romantic poems and great historical dramas, but today he is forgotten, and is remembered only for a few short poems with well-formed forms and elegant idioms. However, as a prose writer, he was a master of his generation, and his representative works, the five volumes of “Fantastic Dialogues” (1824-29) and “Greek-Roman Dialogues” (1853), are beautifully written versions of dialogues between famous people from ancient times to the present, from Pericles and Aspasia, Dante and Beatrice, to Calvin and Louis XIV. The depth of his enjoyment comes from his skill in conjuring up the scenes of these dialogues, rather than their political or philosophical content.

*Some of the terminology referenced in "Fantasy Dialogues" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…詩人としてはロマン的な長詩や歴史劇の大作があるが現在では忘れられ，むしろ整った形式と高雅な語法を用いたいくつかの短詩によって記憶されるにすぎない。しかし散文家としては一代の名匠であり，その代表作《空想対話編》5巻(1824‐29)，《ギリシア･ローマ対話編》(1853)は，ペリクレスとアスパシア，ダンテとベアトリーチェからカルバン，ルイ14世にいたる古今の有名人の対話をみごとな文章で創作したもの。政治的･哲学的内容よりもそれらの対話の場面を想像させる手腕のさえによって味わいが深い。…

※「《空想対話編》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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