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1775-1864
Poet, classicist and essayist. Born at Ipsley Court, Warwick, the son of a Physician. He went to Rugby School then on to Trinity College, Oxford, but was sent down in 1794. The following year he published his first collection, Poems (1795). He lived abroad from 1814, not returning to England until 1835. His strong views and quick temper led him into many disputes and following a potential law suit he spent the remainder of his life, from 1858, on the continent, particularly Florence. He is now remembered more for his prose than his poetry, his best known work being Imaginary conversations of literary men and statesmen (1824-1829), a series of dramatic dialogues. There is a commemorative plaque to the author in the church at Bishop's Tachbrook, Warwickshire.
The following works are available in the West Midlands Creative Literature Collection:-
Imaginary conversations (1824)
Landor: poetry and prose
Last fruit off an old tree (1853)
Letters and other unpublished writings (1897)
Poemata et inscriptiones
Shorter poems of Walter Savage Landor
Works of Walter Savage Landor (2 volumes) (1853)
Samples and/or complete texts of the following are available on this website
Other selections can be found in Representative poetry online, part of the University of Toronto site. Poems from the Oxford Book of English Poetry (1919) are on the Project Bartleby site.
The San Antonio College LitWeb Walter Savage Landor Page has biographical and bibliographical information.
The Literary Encyclopedia has a profile of Walter Savage Landor by Michael Bradshaw, Manchester Metropolitan University.
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updated 7 April 2005
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