Richard Le Gallienne — a remark

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“A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.”

Advocating detachment from others' opinions as a path to clarity · Essay or prose fancy

About Richard Le Gallienne

Richard Le Gallienne

20 January 1866–15 September 1947

Richard Le Gallienne, born Richard Thomas Gallienne in Liverpool on 20 January 1866 and dead at Menton, France, on 15 September 1947, lived long enough to become both a participant in and a chronicler of several literary ages. He began as an ambitious young poet of the late Victorian aesthetic movement, came to public…

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