Walter Savage Landor

Michael Bradshaw (University of Worcester)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University), Emily Rohrbach (University of Durham)

Dates

Born 30 Jan 1775
Died 17 Sep 1864
Activity 1795-1864

Places

Born in England
Active in England; Italy; Wales

Activities

Primary

Classicist
Essayist
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet
Political writer
Satirist
Scholar

Other

Biographer
Grammarian
Letter-writer/ Diarist
Literary Critic/ Historian
Translator

Resources

Landor's Works

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“Few men have impressed their peers so much, or the general public so little, as Walter Savage Landor”, wrote Sidney Colvin in his biography of Landor (1881). A.C. Swinburne was one among many of Landor's ardent contemporary admirers, writing in the

Encyclopedia Britannica

(1882), “In the course of this long life he had won for himself such a double crown of glory in verse and prose as has been won by no other Englishman but Milton.” Browning was another friend and champion. In his long and energetic career, Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) was active as a writer of prose and poetry in both the Romantic and Victorian periods, and had some claim to literary and intellectual prominence. He published his first collection of verse,

Poems

(1795), at twenty. and he was still writing and…

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Citation: Bradshaw, Michael. "Walter Savage Landor". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 April 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2607, accessed 25 November 2024.]