ABSTRACT
Landor imagined a mid-seventeenth-century conversation between Walton, Oldways, and Cotton, which turned to a celebration of Donne the lover. Landor supplied some verses, supposedly Donne's unpublished passions, to suit the amorous attachment he invented for Donne (Imaginary Conversations, English, xv (1829), in Complete Works, ed. T. E. Welby and s. Wheeler, 1927-36, iv, pp. 164-71). The dialogue was written in 1826.
